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11. "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" (1993)
Adjusted US opening: $2.3 million
Original US opening: $1.2 million
Adjusted US total: $11 million
Original global total: $11 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 85%
What critics said: "Closer to radio drama than kiddie fare, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the strangest PG film of the year." — Washington Post
10. "The LEGO Batman Movie" (2017)
Adjusted US opening: $60 million
Original US opening: $53 million
Adjusted US total: $201.8 million
Original global total: $312 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 90%
What critics said: "It's the Bat-spoof we didn't know we needed and it gives Batman a chance to loosen up." — Detroit News
9. "Batman Begins" (2005)
Adjusted US opening: $70 million
Original US opening: $48.7 million
Adjusted US total: $298 million
Original global total: $373.7 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 84%
What critics said: "It's not just the birth of Batman we're seeing in this triumphant interpretation, it's also the dawning of Gotham City's age of greed." — Entertainment Weekly
8. "Batman and Robin" (1997)
Adjusted US opening: $75 million
Original US opening: $43 million
Adjusted US total: $188 million
Original global total: $238 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 12%
What critics said: "Of all modern Batmans, George Clooney bears the closest physical resemblance to the comic-book hero, but there isn't much to say about his performance because there isn't much performance to discuss." — Wall Street Journal
7. "Batman Returns" (1992)
Adjusted US opening: $91.5 million
Original US opening: $45.7 million
Adjusted US total: $326.5 million
Original global total: $267 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80%
What critics said: "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." — Chicago Tribune
6. "Batman" (1989)
Adjusted US opening: $92 million
Original US opening: $40.5 million
Adjusted US total: $570 million
Original global total: $411.6 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 72%
What critics said: "It's an unforgivably flat ending for a movie of such astonishing contours. But its first two-thirds — which should be called The Joker's Big Misadventure — is probably the best film of the year." — Philadelphia Enquirer
5. "Batman Forever" (1995)
Adjusted US opening: $97 million
Original US opening: $52.8 million
Adjusted US total: $339.5 million
Original global total: $336.5 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 39%
What critics said: "Batman Forever is a visual tour de force, a knock-your-eyes-out effort. But it overdoes, overkills. And what starts out exhilarating ends up ... exhausting." — CNN
4. "The Batman" (2022)
US opening: $134 million
US total (so far): $134 million
Global total (so far): $254 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 85%
What critics said: "This interpretation is po-faced to the extreme, but Reeves's commitment to the material and Pattinson's preternatural grumpiness in the role make The Batman sing -- though the ballad is undeniably emo." — The Atlantic
3. "Batman v Superman: Dawn of the Justice" (2016)
Adjusted US opening: $194 million
Original US opening: $166 million
Adjusted US total: $387 million
Original global total: $873.6 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 29%
What critics said: "A ponderous, smothering, over-pixelated zeppelin crash of a movie scored by a choir that sounds like it's being drowned in lava." — NPR
2. "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012)
Adjusted US opening: $197 million
Original US opening: $160.9 million
Adjusted US total: $775 million
Original global total: $1.08 billion
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 87%
What critics said: "At a time when Hollywood seems incapable of doing anything that isn't a grand-scale fantasy, Nolan has hijacked the form to bring it down to earth." — AV Club
1. "The Dark Knight" (2008)
Adjusted US opening: $207 million
Original US opening: $158 million
Adjusted US total: $698.6 million
Original global total: $1.006 billion
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 94%
What critics said: "The Dark Knight resounds with a throbbing topical undercurrent, its superficially good-versus-evil setup slowly revealed to be a complex examination of the ways in which democracies can, and must, combat zealotry." — Slant Magazine
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