I don't usually side with the audience, but here we are...

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2019)

Although it is technically a superhero movie, it is by far the best movie in the genre. How did it do it? By not being a superhero movie.
Being a psychological thriller of a character we have known for almost 80 years, that has had multiple stories about why he is as he is, we knew this movie was going to have a hard job to impress.
It did it.
The story is super dark, which actually is fitting for a character that kills and that tries to take a city as part of a joke. Even the few jokes that appear in the movie are not oversaturating it.
The music is an astounding job. It sometimes goes too loud and over the dialog, but nothing distracting, although a couple of times unfitting.
The scenography is just perfect for Gotham, a city that has less sun than England.
The acting is extremely solid. Everyone gave everything they had and left their soul in this movie. Maybe in the last scenes with Robert the Niro he dropped the ball a little and the acting was a lot more stiff and less natural, but not enough to ruin the experience.
The direction is in general solid. A couple of pointers in 2 or 3 scenes that are not enough to ruin the movie.
The edition was great, as well as the special effects. The movie feels at times like dragging itself and artificially making itself longer, but those scenes are so rare and far in between that in general they don't ruin the experience.
Just what I expected from a film that takes an actual look at mental disorders and the way society works. Great film overall, would watch again. And not many movies that have appeared in the last 10 years or so can say the same.