Batman

Last summer’s blockbuster is far from perfect, with a script not nearly as taut or illuminating as it ought to have been, but once Jack Nicholson’s Joker (pictured) and Michael Keaton (in the title role) go to it, the Tim Burton film is pretty entertaining. There’s a terrific assist from Anton Furst’s production design (which owes as much to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” as it does the comic strip) and Danny Elfman’s ominous score.

(HBO Sunday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m., 10:45 p.m.; Cinemax Tuesday at 3 p.m., 11:15 p.m., Thursday at 9 p.m., Friday at 2:35 a.m.)