{"id":51064,"date":"2022-02-24T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=51064"},"modified":"2022-02-24T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:33:32","slug":"batman-movies-ranked","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/batman-movies-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Batman Movie Ranked From Adam West to Christopher Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From right: Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton and Christian Bale as Batman, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman and Danny DeVito as the Penquin in Batman Returns (Images courtesy of Warner Bros.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since 1989, Hollywood has pumped out nine big budget Batman films. Beside those blockbuster theatrical releases, there have also been dozens of direct-to-video animated flicks, several TV series and\u2014shudder<\/em>\u2014the handful of woebegone movies involving poor \u201cBatfleck<\/a>.\u201d All told, we haven\u2019t gone longer than two years at a time without a Batman movie being released into the world in some from. That trend continues next week when Matt Reeves\u2019s highly anticipated reboot The Batman<\/em><\/a> hits theaters after a COVID delay of nearly a year.<\/p>\n

The new film is starting over from scratch, with a whole new cast in a whole new Gotham City with a whole new continuity, and as such, it\u2019s certainly not necessary to revisit any previous iterations of the Caped Crusader to prepare for the new one. Set during Bruce Wayne\u2019s second year of crime fighting, The Batman<\/em> isn\u2019t so much a retread of the character\u2019s familiar origin story\u2014parents shot in an alley, pearls everywhere, trauma, billions spent on inflicting vigilante justice on the city\u2019s poor and mentally ill\u2014as it is a crime noir<\/a> take on the world\u2019s greatest detective.<\/p>\n

Judging from the film\u2019s trailer, it seems like Reeves is trying to thread the needle between Christopher Nolan\u2019s grimmer, more grounded films and the unabashed fun of gimmicky villains like Catwoman<\/a> (Zo\u00eb Kravitz<\/a>) and The Riddler (Paul Dano). Early buzz seems to suggest he may have pulled it off. But before The Batman <\/em>premieres, I thought I\u2019d take a look back at all 10 theatrically released Batman movies to see how their different interpretations compare.<\/p>\n

A note on methodology: I tried to take into consideration the success and critical reception of these movies as well as the cultural context in which they were released. Ultimately, though, a lot of this list just came down to what I like best! Also, I do not acknowledge the films featuring \u201cBatfleck\u201d as Batman movies. They are DC Extended Universe movies and I do not care about them. Don\u2019t @ me.<\/p>\n