“…should have been way weirder than it is.”

“… mostly registers as a meditation on the size and scope of Dave Bautista’s head.”

“…interrogates the notion of gun worship, all within the confines of a shoot-em-up police thriller.”

“…has a musical sense of misdirection.”

“A stylish, saucy entry in the ‘stepford wife’ subgenre…”

“…a hate-watch thriller that scoffs at its characters as much as you do.”

“…asks familiar, Cronenbergian questions.”

“Can a film be unpredictable and yet somehow unsurprising?”

“Giacchino’s score is the standout aesthetic element of The Batman…”

“The film’s pleasures lie in the experimental filmmaking that’s usually going on in the corners of a Soderbergh production.”