With a well-painted influence from the Man of Steel’s darkened hues and dramatic imaging, Batman v Superman is a very naturalistic story with a somber script.

| Jul 10, 2024

The film was written by both Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, and their jarring duality is very present.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 17, 2024

This new franchise has chosen its mature path and they are showing the resolute fortitude to stick with it, haters be damned.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2024

Snyder’s weakest DCEU film was by far Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, an overwrought attempt to shoehorn Ben Affleck’s Batman into the Superman story Snyder started with Man of Steel.

| Jun 16, 2023

I had no problem following the story, understanding the motivations, or investing in the characters. I love that these heroes aren’t copy and pasted from past films. I had no problems with it being dark, serious, and humorless.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

I want to see a great film about Batman fighting Superman, and I want to see a great film about the Justice League. Regrettably, this scattered, ambitious effort sets out to achieve too much and doesn't accomplish enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 18, 2022

Sometimes it sins with its expository dialogues, some themes are halfway to develop, it can be a little slow... but none of these failures transform it into the misfortune that the critics have been commissioned to sell [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2022

The leads embody their characters despite creative shortcomings, and could hold up a strong Justice League if the franchise is given some new directorial talent...

| Oct 9, 2021

Maybe the film industry is tapping into our culture's difficulty with intelligent and mature conflict resolution...

| Aug 27, 2021

Unsatisfyingly curious.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 6, 2021

Batman v Superman is almost unrelentingly dark, making the two-and-a-half hour movie tougher to get through than the lighter-toned Marvel movies. But it earns its superhero stripes thanks to great performances and some truly knockout action scenes.

| Aug 5, 2021

At 2 hours and 33 minutes in length, the plot has some clear pacing issues. Too many ideas, whilst not enough happening.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2021

Anticipated for decades, the grand punch-up between Superman, last son of Krypton, and Batman, lost son of Gotham, arrives not with great fanfare but with a big raspberry.

| Jun 8, 2021

Altogether this is not a great film. It would not be incorrect to consider it a poor one. It is a poor film, however, with outstanding pieces in it.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 18, 2021

Action-packed and epic, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice delivers an unmissable fight between its title characters, and successfully deepens the mythology of the DC Universe as only Zack Snyder can.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2021

Let's not make any bones about it - on any scale, Dawn of Justice is painful to watch.

| Feb 10, 2021

There was a time when superhero movies were fun, escapist entertainment. But now our caped and cowled heroes are as dark and troubled as a reject from a Kafka novel which, in this case, makes for a rather loud but dreary night at the movies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2021

It would be nice if there was a moment of dialogue that allowed us to care about the heroes we look up to on the big screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 1, 2021

It's bad enough that a single movie isn't big enough for both Batman and Superman; it's even worse that they must share the screen with Wonder Woman and several new villains.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Cinematography and editing were good. The CGI effects were not overly-done or poorly-executed and that was all this movie needed to be as entertaining and exciting as it was.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 20, 2020