The Batman is officially set to be made available to stream in the UK next week.Matt Reeves’ DC film will be released on Premium Video on Demand from April 19 in the UK, after fans will be able to watch the film in the US on HBO Max from April 18.The film sees Robert Pattinson play the caped crusader, alongside Paul Dano as the Riddler, Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Colin Farrell as the Penguin and John Turturro as Carmine Falcone.Farrell is soon set to reprise his role as Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin, in a forthcoming HBO Max spinoff series.“The world that Matt Reeves created for The Batman is one that warrants a deeper gaze through the eyes of Oswald Cobblepot,” Farrell said.“I couldn’t be more excited about continuing this exploration of Oz as he rises through the darkened ranks to become The Penguin. Will be good to get him back on the streets of Gotham for a little madness and a little mayhem.” In a four-star review of The Batman, NME wrote: “Director Matt Reeves has mixed up gritty mob drama with film-noir detective thriller – and thanks to Paul Dano’s ultra-creepy villain, some psychological horror too.“Most of the time it comes off brilliantly.
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Robert Pattinson has taken his fair share of criticism for his take on the iconic superhero, with some cynics referring to him as the “Emo Batman”.
But despite the doubters, the new movie The Batman has been well received by audiences and critics alike.
In fact, according to online movie aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the latest Batman movie is the fourth-greatest since Adam West first pulled on his spandex costume in 1966; and the third-best if you don’t count animated features.
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The Batman is good enough for an 85% approval rating on the “Tomatometer”, which is based on multiple reviews from critics.
It also scores an 88% approval rating based on audience opinions from more than 10,000 verified cinema-goers and regular users of the Rotten Tomatoes site.
But despite the favourable reviews, it is Christian Bale who comes out on top in the battle of the batmen, with the Tomatometer ranking 2008’s The Dark Knight as the best ever movie in the franchise.
The second film in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy - which also stars the late Heath Ledger as supervillain Joker - gets a near-perfect score of 94% on the Tomatometer.
Bale’s final turn as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) also scores highly at 87%, which is enough for third place among Batman movies.
Bale is denied second place by the animated building block-based feature The Lego Batman Movie (2017) starring Will Arnett as the voice of Batman, which claims the runner-up slot.
Batman first appeared on the big screen in the 1943 serial, The Batman, starring Lewis Wilson.
But the comic book character’s enduring popularity was cemented by Adam West’s run as the caped crusader in the 1960s TV
‘The Batman’ Hits HBO Max Next Week
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The Batman that was previously teased by the film’s director Matt Reeves has been released.Reeves today (March 24) posted a link to a website where fans had to solve three riddles in order to watch the clip, although it’s since been circulated widely online.In the scene Robert Pattinson’s Batman meets the Joker (played by Barry Keoghan) at Arkham Asylum to seek his help in finding out the identity of the Riddler (Paul Dano).The only time viewers see Keoghan’s incarnation of the DC villain in The Batman is at the end of the film when he has a brief conversation with the locked-up Riddler.Who gets the last laugh…? https://t.co/LSUp9RAve7 pic.twitter.com/Y7ov0s4VGn— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) March 24, 2022Reeves touched on the scene in a previous interview with IGN. “What’s interesting is that the reason that Joker’s in the movie is there was actually another scene that was earlier.
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‘The Batman’ Stays Atop U.K. Box Office, ‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’ Makes Strong Debut
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Sam Raimi wants to make a Batman film: “I’d come running”
Batman film in the future.The Spider-Man and Doctor Strange And The Multiverse of Madness director recently opened up about his love for the caped crusader.“I’ve always loved Batman,” Raimi told Empire in a new interview. “If I ever saw the Batsignal up in the air, I’d come running.“If I heard that deep, gurgling laugh of The Shadow coming from the darkness, I would also tentatively step outside.”Reflecting on other characters that he’d like to make more films for, he added: “And Spider-Man would be ahead of Doctor Strange, but I don’t want to put him down the list!”Matt Reeves most recently put a new spin on the character with The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano and more.In a four-star review of The Batman, NME wrote: “Director Matt Reeves has mixed up gritty mob drama with film-noir detective thriller – and thanks to Dano’s ultra-creepy villain, some psychological horror too.“Most of the time it comes off brilliantly.
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