Batman (1989)
After a young boy witnesses his parents' murder on the streets of Gotham City, he grows up to become the Batman, who helps to defeat evil and keep the city's citizens safe. In this movie, Batman begins his war on crime with his first major enemy: the Joker, who emerged from a horrible accident as a clownishly homicidal criminal.
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
23 November 1916, Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya [now Malaysia]
17 June 1957, Banbury, England, UK
15 October 1964, Miami, Florida, USA
2 July 1956, Gonzales, Texas, USA
23 August 1952, London, England, UK
9 January 1913, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
June 29, 2014
Nicholson isn't only offering a brilliant bit of self-parody here, he's doing it in service to the character
October 25, 2013
Nicholson's Joker is a villain worthy of a real superhero and Keaton's Batman gets to perform some cinematic superheroics of the first order.
April 10, 2013
The storytelling has weaknesses, but the characters are fascinating.
April 10, 2013
[Nicholson] has never been more commanding. Not only because he does an outstanding job, but also because so much of the movie's creative energy is devoted to making the Joker one of the most startling movie characters in recent memory.
April 10, 2013
Is it interesting? Fitfully. Is it fun? Not much, Gotham City fans, not much.
April 10, 2013
It's an unforgivably flat ending for a movie of such astonishing contours. But its first two-thirds -- which should be called The Joker's Big Misadventure -- is probably the best film of the year.
April 16, 2007
Director Tim Burton effectively echoes the visual style of the original Bob Kane comics while conjuring up a nightmarish world of his own.
April 10, 2013
The idea of doing a dark, neurotic, highly stylized and highly claustrophobic superproduction is an audacious and appealing one, but director Tim Burton has only made it halfway there.
February 11, 2014
It is, unfortunately, awfully difficult to revisit Tim Burton's Batman with an impartial eye in the wake of Christopher Nolan's genre-defining Dark Knight trilogy...
April 10, 2013
As Robin might have said of this semi-boondoggle: "Holy overkill!"
July 06, 2015
Batman is a stunning achievement, especially through the incredible and unique visualization of director Tim Burton.
August 25, 2013
Highly recommended even for fans who think Batman begins and ends with Nolan's trilogy.
