10 Greatest Opening Shots From Recent Movies

10. The Batman

While it's absolutely typical for a Batman movie to open with a scene that introduces the primary villain, Matt Reeves' The Batman veered away from the spectacular set-pieces that kicked off Christopher Nolan's latter two Batman movies for something considerably simpler and more horrific.

The very first shot of the film is an instant attention-getter, despite its lack of technical showiness: it's nothing more than a then-unknown individual spying on an apartment through a pair of binoculars.

We see the person watching a young boy dressed up for Halloween and pretend-killing a man we assume to be his father, and who of course turns out to be Gotham City mayor Don Mitchell Jr. (Rupert Penry-Jones).

The person whose eyes we're seeing through then looks up to the apartment's skylight, and after almost two minutes we finally cut to inside the apartment.

The subsequent moments reveal that we've been following the perspective of The Riddler (Paul Dano), who goes on to murder Mitchell in one of the most brutal showings of force in any superhero movie.

Reeves had the confidence in his vision to linger on this long, unbroken shot of the Riddler going about his work. How many $200 million movies can you name that dared open in such refreshingly pared down, yet still entirely artful, fashion?