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After a young boy witnesses his parents' murder on the streets of Gotham City, he grows up to become the Batman, who helps to defeat evil and keep the city's citizens safe. In this movie, Batman begins his war on crime with his first major enemy: the Joker, who emerged from a horrible accident as a clownishly homicidal criminal.
[Nicholson] has never been more commanding. Not only because he does an outstanding job, but also because so much of the movie's creative energy is devoted to making the Joker one of the most startling movie characters in recent memory.
It's an unforgivably flat ending for a movie of such astonishing contours. But its first two-thirds -- which should be called The Joker's Big Misadventure -- is probably the best film of the year.
The idea of doing a dark, neurotic, highly stylized and highly claustrophobic superproduction is an audacious and appealing one, but director Tim Burton has only made it halfway there.
It is, unfortunately, awfully difficult to revisit Tim Burton's Batman with an impartial eye in the wake of Christopher Nolan's genre-defining Dark Knight trilogy...