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The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker. (PG-13, 126 min.)
7:00 PM
Big Screen Classics 2025
Free for members
Tim Burton directs; Michael Keaton stars as Batman; and Jack Nicholson stars as his arch foe, The Joker. As the Dark Knight, defender of law and order in Gotham City, Batman treads the shadow zone between right and wrong, fighting with only his skill in martial arts and his keenly honed mind to defend the innocent and to purge the memory of his parents' brutal murder--always keeping his true identity as millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne a closely guarded secret. Based upon Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics. [Warner Bros]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, Jack Palance
Director: Tim Burton
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Crime
"A groundbreaking comic book adaptation."
— Mike Massie, Gone With The Twins
"It is both a technical and aesthetic triumph,"
— Tom Long, Santa Cruz Sentinel
"Batman is a stunning achievement, especially through the incredible and unique visualization of director Tim Burton."
— Ron Pennington, The Hollywood Reporter
"Tim Burton's Batman is spectacular entertainment, as exciting as it is visionary, and as much fun as it is darkly original."
— Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
"One of the most interesting comic-book movies ever made, a movie that vividly illustrates where most of the others have gone wrong."
— Mike McGrady, Newsday
"Tim Burton's Batman redefined the Dark Knight for a generation of moviegoers, and it still puts most modern superhero blockbusters to sham"
— Ben Sherlock, Screen Rant
"An extraordinary visual and aural experience, echoing and reverberating with allusions to Kane, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, even Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo."
— Malcolm Johnson, Hartford Courant
"The thing that's going to make you want to see Batman a second and third and fourth time is Gotham City as a brutal pile of dour, gothic, Art Deco menace."
— Jay Carr, Boston Globe
"Batman is a giddy, disturbing ride through movies and myths past and present. In short, Batman is terrific -- funny, smart and sensitive too, the perfect cinematic date."
— Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
"It's actually refreshing to discover a comic book story that wants to look different. Tim Burton's Batman is a bit like the same director's Beetlejuice -- it's got style, a flavor of its, juicy and tangy."
— Noel Taylor, Ottawa Citizen
"While it is frequently a visionary film of surpassing beauty, intelligence and originality, it is also coolly personal, which will [come] as a shock to people who are expecting a populist entertainment."
— Marshall Fine, Journal News
"Boasts the adventure of Indiana Jones, the humor of the original Ghostbusters, the terror of Friday the 13th and the ingenuity of a post-modern classic. Better yet, it contains a performance by Jack Nicholson that's so mesmerizing it won't be forgotten."
— Bruce R. Miller, Sioux City Journal
"Batman is a feast for the eyes and ears, with Anton Furst's massive, elegantly ugly sets of Gotham City, Danny Elfman's lovely, classically-oriented score, and dazzling special effects. It is also one long gas, thanks to Jack Nicholson."
— Lou Lumenick, Bergen Record (New Jersey)
