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As someone who very often wrongly identified as "The" Cookie Monster, me not can help but be irked by title. Me also have definite Bat-fatigue, no matter how good this is.

And there also issue with Batman and Gotham City, in that character was born out of lawlessness of 1930s, have major revival during lawlessness of Reagan Era (peaking with Tim Burton film). But even taking into account post-Covid uptick in crime, we currently living in safest era in American history. And it completely fine to have fantasy of urban hellscape, and certainly healthier to have that fantasy play out as superhero movie than Fox News fearmongering. But it still reinforce "our cities are on fire" lies that large swaths of country still believe.

And from storytelling perspective it might be interesting to see how gentrified Gotham without much street crime could still need Caped Crusader to protect it. Me guess Nolan films came closest to that, as they more rooted in fears of terrorism than crime.

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I know you’ve already written about it, but will you be reviewing Drive My Car now that it’s more widely available on HBO?

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That seemed like an almost uniformly glowing Batman review and then, 3.5?

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I usually don't care about spoilers but for some reason I'm really liking that I know next to nothing about After Yang.

I say that to apologize for totally being the guy that just looked at the score, fist pumped, and then read the entire Batman review.

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The most baffling part to me in The Batman is Dano’s performance. He’s a fantastic actor, but I haven’t seen this much whispering then yelling since Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending. Feels like a wild miscalculation, and elicited a lot of giggling in the theater

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