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Review: The Batman

A chaos-spreading criminal known as The Riddler (Paul Dano) is wreaking havoc across Gotham City, killing public officials and leaving taunting messages for Batman (Robert Pattinson). Also up to criminal no-good in the city are The Penguin (Colin Farrell) and mobster Falcone (John Turturro). Zoe Kravitz plays cat burglar Selina Kyle, whilst Peter Sarsgaard turns up as the Gotham District Attorney.   I’m really more of a “Superman” guy, and by that I really only mean the 1978 one and maybe its first sequel “Superman II” . As far as The Dark Knight, I grew up on the 60s TV show and Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman” film and enjoyed those very much as a kid. To a lesser extent I enjoyed 1992’s “Batman Returns” as well. Michael Keaton is my Batman/Bruce Wayne. After those I’ve not found a “Batman” film to be wholly enjoyable in all the years since. I disliked Christopher Nolan’s vision for the “Dark Knight” trilogy, despite some terrific supporting performances in them (Rutger Hauer, Mo