Review of Batman Returns (1992) by Kenneth Turan for Los Angeles Times — 20 Nov 1993
Batman Returns, the most eagerly awaited and aggressively hyped film of the summer, is, for better and worse, very much the product of director Tim Burton's morose imagination. His dark, melancholy vision is undeniably something to see, but it is a claustrophobic conception, not an expansive one, oppressive rather than exhilarating, and it strangles almost all the enjoyment out of this movie without half trying.
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This review of Batman Returns (1992) was written by Kenneth Turan and published by Los Angeles Times on 20 Nov 1993.
Batman Returns has generally received positive reviews.
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