It also does that trope where it has the revolutionary "villain" fighting to expose the systemic corruption be/act so unhinged and do evil things as to give justification that their critiques are wrong. It's a really well made, entertaining movie, but it's themes are just such weak centrist bs that I couldn't ignore it.
I wrote about it more in-depth here if you're interested: https://letterboxd.com/peytobrock/film/the-batman/
EDIT: this is a write-up by a critic I really like that's even better than what I wrote: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63389248
when all lesbians are doomed to tragedy because two girls are literally forbidden to have a happy ending, you may as well root for the badass lesbian girlboss villain who at least doesn't have to go through the pain of having her girlfriend murdered.
Counterpoint: Harley and Ivy