Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 29 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
10 Apr 2013
fresh:
Batman Returns is the rarest of Hollywood beasts -- a sequel that's better than the original
– Jay Carr,
Boston Globe,
10 Apr 2013
fresh:
As Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands reminded us, Burton always has been more absorbed by what his audience sees than by what his movies say.
– Desmond Ryan,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
10 Apr 2013
rotten:
[Burton's] 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.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Dec 2014
fresh:
There are flashes of commercially oriented action and humor, but the overall feeling is one of a languid depression sprung straight from the heart of its author.