The Batman
Robert Pattinson is Batman in this noir reboot, said to focus on a caped crusader's detective origins. Co-written and helmed by War for the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves.
Also stars Zoë Kravitz (as Catwoman), Paul Dano (as Riddler), Colin Farrell (as Penguin), Andy Serkis (as Alfred) and Jeffrey Wright (as Commissioner Gordon).
The role, as well as writing and directing duties, were originally given to Ben Affleck, who handed it off to Reeves in 2017.
Less2021Rating: M, Sustained threat, violence and coarse language175 minsUSADC Films
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- Director:
- Matt Reeves ('Let Me In', 'Cloverfield', 'War for the Planet of the Apes')
- Writer:
- Matt ReevesMattson Tomlin
- Cast:
- Robert PattinsonZoë KravitzAndy SerkisJeffrey WrightPaul DanoColin FarrellJohn TurturroPeter Sarsgaard
The Batman | Reviews
Robert Pattinson and Paul Dano are pretty awesome in Matt Reeves’ bold new start for DC’s most overrepresented hero, one that capitalises on the graphic origins of its story with striking visuals that speak for themselves.
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Independent
The Batman is a very good Batman film. To think of it as anything more only leads to delusion or disappointment.
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The Guardian
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.
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Bloody Disgusting
A masterful and heady introspection on vigilantism, told with foreboding grit and intensity atypical of the genre.
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San Francisco Chronicle
From start to finish, The Batman is mostly just a collection of bad ideas.
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The Globe and Mail
Robert Pattinson propels The Batman to gigantic, delightfully creepy superhero heights.
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A.V. Club
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.
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Rolling Stone
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.
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The Telegraph
A sprawling and sinuous urban detective thriller, with the intricately unhinged red-wool-on-corkboard plotting of classic film noir.
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Slant Magazine
A unique commemoration of the Batman mythology and its stylistic and tonal shifts across its 80-year history.
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Seattle Times
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.
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The Irish Times
This is the most well thought-through outing for the caped crusader since Christopher Nolan’s... The Dark Knight...
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reviews
With a brilliantly mopey R-Patz, The Batman is a bold new start for DC’s overrepresented hero
Robert Pattinson and Matt Reeves put the ‘graphic’ back in ‘graphic novel’, with this visually striking blockbuster.
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The Batman | Release Details
The Batman is now playing in 1 cinema in Australia. The Batman is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.