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 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 Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Batman is largely content to skim the surface and bask in the light of its visual style.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
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 Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
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 Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheila Benson
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 Full Review »
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