Batman (1989) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 9 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The Batblast of the summer.Read the full review
The movie fixes you in its gravitational pull. It's an enveloping, walk-in vision... As rich and satisfying a movie as you're likely to see all year.Read the full review
Batman is largely content to skim the surface and bask in the light of its visual style.Read the full review
It's a rare, beautifully made movie that offers you another world. [23 June 1989, Daily Datebook, p.E1]Read the full review
There's a cold intelligence at work here. Though its pleasures are plentiful enough to reward a second viewing, only Nicholson has saved Warners from a wing-clip. [23 June 1989, Life, p.1D]Read the full review
The movie's problem is that no one seemed to have any fun making it, and it's hard to have much fun watching it. It's a depressing experience.Read the full review
The Joker has been demoted into a broad-scale sociopath, without a tempter's power or a mythic villain's complexity. And that's the movie's real undoing. [23 June 1989, Calendar, p.6-1]Read the full review
Nicholson embellishes fascinatingly baroque designs with his twisted features, lavish verbal pirouettes and inspired excursions into the outer limits of psychosis. It's a masterpiece of sinister comic acting.Read the full review
It's neither funny nor solemn. It has the personality not of a particular movie but of a product, of something arrived at by corporate decision.Read the full review
