Batman

(1989; screens Saturday at 5:15 p.m.)

Tim Burton's comic-book epic is a triumph of style over substance, a cross between Metropolis and Fantasyland. Michael Keaton's Caped Crusader is suitably mordant and repressed, speaking in a low hiss that simmers with contained rage, while his archenemy, the Joker (Jack Nicholson), exudes an exuberant irony that subverts the film's whole good-guy-versus-bad-guy structure. As for Kim Basinger, she makes something less of an impression than she did in L.A. Confidential.