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Ari Aster (born July 15, 1986) is an American filmmaker. After garnering initial recognition for the short film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011), he became best known for writing and directing the feature films Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019), both released by A24, making a name as a filmmaker of elevated horror. After pivoting away from the genre with Beau Is Afraid (2023), his next film, Eddington, premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. His films are notable for their unsettling combination of horror, dark comedy, and graphic violence. He co-founded the production company Square Peg with Danish producer Lars Knudsen in 2019.
The movie opens with a car chase between Batman and Robin and the Joker and Harley Quinn after the Joker stole an expensive piece of art from the museum. After a while Joker and Harley get out and Batman chases Harley while telling Robin to go after Joker. Robin manages to catch up to Joker and tells him to hand over the painting Joker steps back and when Robin runs at him Joker puts out a pistol and shoots Robin in the face. Years later in 2014 Bruce is retired and now Gotham is flooded with crime. Meanwhile Jim Gordan is having trouble with a new crime organization calling themselves the League of Assassins that came to Gotham 4 months ago and are already on top of organized crime in Gotham. During Robin's funeral Bruce told Jim that he is Batman and is retiring so knowing that Jim goes to Bruce and asks him to be Batman once again. Bruce says no the first few times but after him home is broken into by an assassin named Deathstroke Bruce decides to become the caped crusader once again. The movie goes on with Batman trying to stop the league while fighting Deathstroke their best trained assassin. Bruce eventually defeats Deathstroke who still gets away and finds the leader of the League Ras Al Ghul and his daughter Talia. Bruce fights Ras in the spirit world and eventually takes him down. Bruce gets the League to leave Gotham but before that Talia spends the night with Bruce.
