Batman Isn't Woke

I finally saw the latest incarnation of Batman, Matt Reeves’s superbly directed film that melds the story of Bruce Wayne with the grittiness of Todd Phillips’s Joker.

Forget what you’ve heard.

It isn’t “woke.”

I say this as perhaps one of the few people in the viewing audience with reason to dislike the film based on the fact that Jeffrey Wright, a.k.a.…