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Batman: The Killing Joke
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #600
- IMDb #439
- Google retired #424
- Rotten Tomatoes #456
- Metacritic #445
- Letterboxd #565
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #476
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #453
- Metacritic Audience #322
- Criticker #299
- Kinopoisk #426
- AlloCiné #382
- Trakt #433
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 34, highest is Google on 70. Critics average 35, everyone else 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The Joker escapes Arkham Asylum and launches a brutal attack on Commissioner Gordon and his family in an effort to prove that one bad day can drive anyone insane. His goal is to break the Commissioner’s spirit. Batman must hunt down his greatest foe while confronting the very nature of their endless conflict.
Details
- Director
- Sam Liu
- Writer
- Brian Azzarello
- Based on
- Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Animation, DC
- Released
- 24 July 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.5M
- Box office
- $3.8M
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