The Batman

"Grim but gripping."

"Grounded, frequently brutal..."

"The Batman is a very good Batman film. To think of it as anything more only leads to delusion or disappointment."

"Inevitably, night falls on the latest Batman iteration with the cloudy sense that – of course – nothing has really been at stake. A classy turn from Pattinson, however, as the crime fighter with an injured soul."

"A masterful and heady introspection on vigilantism, told with foreboding grit and intensity atypical of the genre."

"From start to finish, The Batman is mostly just a collection of bad ideas."

"Robert Pattinson propels The Batman to gigantic, delightfully creepy superhero heights."

"The film sustains its seductive atmosphere—its hushed pop-noir cool—even as the story fizzles into a string of reveals and a curiously perfunctory climax."

"Potent but erratic."

"At its best, The Batman is... an entertaining pulp-fiction epic under the guise of sure-thing blockbuster. At its worst, it’s the cinematic equivalent of a mixtape."

"A sprawling and sinuous urban detective thriller, with the intricately unhinged red-wool-on-corkboard plotting of classic film noir."

"A unique commemoration of the Batman mythology and its stylistic and tonal shifts across its 80-year history."

"The performances are as complex as the colour palette (ie not very)."

"A gripping, beautifully shot, neo-noir take on an age-old character."

"I don’t know about you, but this particular time in history does not seem like the moment for a movie that will leave you a) miserable and b) wondering why nobody in Gotham City seems to have heard of light bulbs."

"An epic crime saga which more than justifies its epic length..."

"Gritty and grounded..."

"Ambitious and excellently crafted..."

"This is the most well thought-through outing for the caped crusader since Christopher Nolan’s... The Dark Knight..."