Storyline
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
Directors
Cast
Kim Basinger, Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Sam Douglas, Richard Durden, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Strange, Christopher Fairbank, Tracey Walter, Vincent Wong, William Hootkins, Jack Palance, Pat Hingle, Steve Plytas, Michael Gough, Garrick Hagon, Robert Wuhl, Lee Wallace, Jerry Hall, Edwin Craig, Hugo Blick
Trailer
Reviews
100
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.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a rare, beautifully made movie that offers you another world. [23 June 1989, Daily Datebook, p.E1]
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
In short, Batman is terrific - funny, smart and sensitive too, the perfect cinematic date.
80
Variety
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.
70
The New Republic
It's relatively easy to convey the claustral in interior scenes, but [designer] Furst and the director Tim Burton do it even when the setting is a great flight of steps before the municipal building or the huge square where Batman and the joker confront each other. [31 July 1989, p.24]
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