Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's reviews
Media reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
When it sings, 'Dawn of Justice' is a wonder. When it drags, it still looks good and offers hints of a better scene just around the corner.
USA Today
'BvS' will please those either waiting for the two main players to lock horns on a movie screen, or those who've just been pining for Wonder Woman forever.
Rolling Stone
Better than 'Man of Steel' but below the high bar set by (...) 'Dark Knight', 'BvS' is still a colossus, the stuff that DC Comics dreams are made of for that kid in all of us.
Variety
This very long, very brooding, often exhilarating and sometimes scattered epic succeeds as often it does therefore has to be seen as an achievement.
The Guardian
For a film so concerned with its characters' inner lives, there's a fundamental disconnect going on here , enough to make you yearn for the lighter touch of the Marvel films.
Empire
There are moments that make the whole enterprise worthwhile, and introduces an intriguing new Batman. But it's also cluttered and narratively wonky.
The Washington Post
As heavy and humorless as a Supreme Court decision (...) it's the genuine rigor of Snyder's engagement with the psychology of Superman and Batman that keeps the film grounded and the rivalry plausible.
Entertainment Weekly
'Dawn of Justice' starts off as an intriguing meditation about two superheroes turning to an all-too-human emotion (...) Two and a half hours later it winds up (...) (being) another numbing smash-and-bash orgy of CGI mayhem.
The Wrap
The trio (Snyder and writers) do manage to cough up an acceptable number of ooh-that?s-cool moments (...) but any other ideas and characters the movie might offer get lost in the rubble.
New York Post
Snyder puts together some very striking scenes (...) A film that frantically introduces characters and concepts while never clearly establishing the rules of the DC Comics universe.
Cinemanía
'BvS' works thanks to Ben Affleck, who plays a grumpy, reckless and fascist Dark Knight in a Batman adventure: the development of Superman is null.
Indiewire
Zack Snyder's flashy, cacophonous follow-up to 2013's 'Man of Steel' is basically one long teaser for the next installment (...) As its title implies, 'Batman v Superman' plays like a mashup of things we've seen before.
El País
It happens all the time without stopping but none of these events is able to prevent me from boredom.
El Mundo
There is an overabundance of ecstasy and solemnity.
The Telegraph
The most incoherent blockbuster in years (...) Marvel can rest easy. Zack Snyder's superhero spectacle is a meatheaded, humourless mess that squanders its cast and makes little sense.
Time Out
A $250 million tombstone for a genre in dire need of a break (...) you'll wish this strenuously empty movie had boned up on a few lessons beforehand (...)