Joel Schumacher was an American director known for his flamboyant visual style, particularly evident in his two Batman films of the 1990s and the confined-space thriller Phone Booth. I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.0★
By the mid-1990s, the Batman franchise was one of the most commercially powerful properties in Hollywood. Tim Burton's 1989 original had proved that a superhero film could be taken seriously as a piece of cinema, and its 1992 follow-up Batman Returns pushed the gothic, expressionist aesthetic
Rating: 3.0★
There was a time, roughly bookended by the anxieties of Y2K and the seismic shock of September 2001, when Hollywood found itself drawn to stories about ordinary people caught in systems they could neither escape nor fully understand. Phone Booth arrives squarely in that window, released in 2002 after a
Genre Action
★½ — Batman & Robin (1997)
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