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THE BATMAN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 176 minutes

Director Matt Reeves

Cast Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano, Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis

What’s new about the latest cinematic reinvention of Batman? Something very old. Y’see, sticking The in front of Batman isn’t just part of a cunning new marketing strategy that DC initiated with The Suicide Squad.

Back in 1939, when Batman made his first appearance in Detective Comics #27, he was billed is an attempt to create a film noir crime story set in Gotham with the Dark Knight as the laconic private dick, albeit one with a fetishistic sartorial style.

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