<em>Glass</em> Is M. Night Shyamalan at His Weirdest
The latest from the director is a singularly strange and meta sequel that’s bound to infuriate all but his most devoted fans.
One of the greatest superhero movies of all time is Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, a bleak fantasia about three comic-book characters (Batman, Catwoman, and the Penguin) whose identities were forged in trauma, and whose costumed alter egos are exaggerated responses to that pain. came out in 1992, before the costumed-hero drama became Hollywood’s predominant genre. At the time, the movie’s protagonist, Bruce Wayne (played by Michael Keaton), still felt like a true oddity, a sad millionaire waiting in his empty mansion in the sky so that he could have permission to dress up as a bat again.
