Grounded by Val Kilmer’s Bruce Wayne and Batman performances, Jim Carey’s Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones’s Two-Face forever mark the end of live-action adaptations embracing the fun and serious ...

Among his other credits, the late Val Kilmer played The Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher's 1995 epic Batman Forever. The film arrived amid considerable controversy, and its follow-up, Batman ...

But “Batman Forever” is an immaculate artifact of its time, in much the same manner as “Top Gun” (1986), another of Kilmer’s most memorable films. It was not the best ’90s movie, but ...