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Film Review: The Batman

Within the glut of modern superhero fiction on the big screen, Matt Reeves’ The Batman is a stylish, revitalizing tonic. A coming-of-age story grafted onto a pitch-black noir, the film plants the seeds for The World’s Greatest Detective and strikes at the beating hearts of Batman, the Waynes, and Gotham City. Under a slowly unspooling mystery and a bevy of comic book influences, Reeves launches the Caped Crusader back into the limelight of his own franchise, delivering a new, definitive Batman mythos. Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz shine. Minor spoilers ahead…

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