The Batman has an 86 percent «Fresh» rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but how does that score compare to the MCU and the DCEU? While the DCEU has struggled with Rotten Tomatoes scores, the MCU has unprecedented reliability with its review aggregator scores, so how does The Batman stack up?
Marvel Studios has seen huge success having all their movies exist in a shared continuity, Warner Bros. has had a few issues maintaining a consistent universe, and now with Joker and The Batman, some of the biggest recent DC Comics films exist outside DCEU canon. With Robert Pattinson making his debut as the Caped Crusader in The Batman as Micheal Keaton returns to the role after 30 years in The Flash, which also reportedly featuresBen Affleck's final appearance as the Dark Knight.
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Thanks to the two franchises having fundamentally different histories when it comes to Rotten Tomatoes, both franchises serve as great benchmarks for understanding what The Batman's Rotten Tomatoes score actually means in the context of the superhero movie landscape. Comparing its Rotten Tomatoes score to other DCEU movies helps reveal how it was reviewed in the context of other similar films from the same studio while comparing to the MCU helps contrast against the perceived industry leader as embraced by most audiences and critics.
All but three movies in the DCEU have Rotten Tomatoes scores bigger than The Batman, which comes in below Wonder Woman (93 percent), The Suicide Squad (91 percent), and Shazam! (90 percent). While The Batman's Tomatometer score (the percent of reviews marked as «Fresh») is outranked by three DCEU movies, the actual average rating of all reviews
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