How The Batman Compares to Matt Reeves' Other Movies In Rotten Tomatoes
Matt Reeves directed five movies before tackling The Batman, earning an overall «Fresh» rating from Rotten Tomatoes. The Batman is Matt Reeves' newest Fresh rating with 85 percent, so how does it compare to the Rotten Tomatoes scores of the rest of the movies Reeves has directed?
Reeves' directorial debut in 2004 was a romantic comedy called The Pallbearer with a 45 percent «Rotten» score, but it wasn't until 2008 that he landed on most people's radar when he directed the J.J. Abrams-produced found-footage sci-fi sensation Cloverfield. Reeves then directed the horror movie Let Me In before taking over the Planet of the Apes franchise with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War For the Planet of the Apes, giving him a four-movie Fresh streak, with all his movies seeing a Fresh score other than Let Me In.
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Since The Batman is also rated Fresh, Reeves' streak is officially extended to five Fresh Rotten Tomatoes scores in a row. Despite the Fresh score, there are also some key differences between the way critics reviewed The Batman compared to his other movies.
The Batman is one of the best-reviewed movies in the DCEU, but its 85 percent score only ranks higher than The Pallbearer (45 percent) and Cloverfield (78 percent). Out of Reeves' six total movies, The Batman only ranks fourth, coming in fourth behind Let Me In (88 percent), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (90 percent), and War for the Planet of the Apes (94 percent).
Despite ranking towards the bottom of his filmography, The Batman still comes in above Matt Reeves' 80 percent average Rotten Tomatoes score. Interestingly, if The Pallbearer's Rotten Tomatoes score is excluded from the average as
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