Batman,The

[Opens March 4 in theaters.] The troubled, reclusive, orphaned billionaire and his alter ego Batman (Robert Pattinson), who lives in the shadows and is aided by his loyal butler (Andy Serkis), joins forces with a police detective (Jeffrey Wright) and Catwoman (Zoƫ Kravitz) to investigate a series of escalating murders and the potential villains responsible, including the scarred Penguin (Colin Farrell) and an ambitious crime lord (John Turturro), in Matt Reeves' gripping, overly dark, rain-soaked, raw, action-packed, violent, star-studded (J. K. Simmons, Margot Robbie, Barry Keoghan, Max Carver, Amber Sienna, Robert O'Neill, Jay Lycurgo, and Jayme Lawson), 175-minute thriller dominated by a terrific musical score and cinematography when the psychopathic, revenge-fueled, cryptic-riddle-obsessed, orphaned Riddler (Paul Dano) targets Gotham's mayor (Rupert Penry-Jones), the commissioner (Alex Ferns), and the district attorney (Peter Sarsgaard) for their lies and corruption.
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