The Batman feels like something we don't get very often: an instantly canonized classic, at least in the genre of superhero cinema . Director Matt Reeves made it such a refreshing outlier in the modern superhero landscape by fusing the shadowy expressionist nightmare of Tim Burton with the grounded tactility of Christopher Nolan while adding his own unique love for noir stylization. Of all the choices he made that defined his take, what was most crucial was the cinematography of Greig Fraser , which gave Gotham City a mysterious vibe that we'd never seen before. This aesthetic would never have happened were it not for Reeves and Fraser first collaborating on Let Me In , one of the better vampire films in recent memory, despite it being an English-language remake of

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