Okay: let's rank the nine big-screen Batman movies.

This is all about the big, bad bat, doing his thing. And, we're keeping team-up movies off the list, too – so no Justice League, and no Suicide Squad cameos. Some of the newer animated movies are patchy – but the Dark Knight Returns adaptation is well worth a look. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm are both phenomenal, and CG family film The Lego Batman Movie remains a favorite.

We've also left off the Batman animated movies, simply because there are so many of them, but a number of those are terrific too. Technically, it's a theatrically-released live-action Batman film, but as much as Adam West's version of the character endures as a slice of pop culture iconography, most of the team hasn't actually seen it – so we've kept it to movies from the last few decades. Ultimately, we decided to leave 1966's Batman movie out of the rankings. In this list, we've ranked the live-action Batman movies from worst to best, based on a TechRadar team vote.

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