Robert Pattinson
Bruce Wayne / Batman
Matt Reeves’ new Batman movie is his vision of a Caped Crusader in his late youth and early career. Bruce Wayne is no longer the teary kid watching his parents gunned down outside the cinema – but he’s not yet the “fully formed” crimefighter whose batarang never misses.
Paul Dano
Edward Nashton / Riddler
A nightmare vision in boilersuit and welding goggles, Paul Dano plays the character as a silent, sombre and merciless angel of death, livestreaming the dying moments of Gotham’s bourgeoisie as he gags them with duct tape – and always leaving the ghoulish calling card that suggests Bruce Wayne is his true nemesis.
Zoë Kravitz
Selina Kyle / Catwoman
Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman is more human, less cartoonish. Doubling as a nightclub worker and cat burglar, her search for a missing friend suggests a good heart, while the US actress’s soundbite describing Pattinson as a “partner in crime” suggests an uneasy alliance in the new Batman movie.
Colin Farrell
Oswald ‘Oz’ Cobblepot / Penguin
The Penguin we meet in this new Batman movie is all too human: a dapper but disfigured mobster with a tightening grip on the Gotham underworld. And as we’ll soon discover, there’s nothing more dangerous than a wannabe kingpin with a fragile ego.