Movies like The Batman

“The Batman (2022) is a United States 2020s neo-noir crime-thriller that stages a citybound investigation into corruption linked to a protagonist's family while a serial killer escalates pressure on institutions. Its dramatic engine is procedural: methodical detective work, gangland entanglements and a slasher-inflected antagonist are rendered through high-contrast chiaroscuro and rain-soaked visual texture. The film reframes superhero vigilantism as a forensic moral inquiry, using noir technique to convert spectacle into institutional diagnosis.”