There is something beautiful in "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey". It is an experiment but reminds one what films used to look like. The film is about hope and love and yet is peppered with the messy stuff that goes along with it. Kogonada, who directed Colin Farrell in the independent "After Wang" returns here with a similar concept film but adjusts it more to mainstream.

The texture of Batman is always tricky because you want to have him be more out of control than the villains he pursues but that can be a tall order and run against the texture of any given story. That is the trick of the series.