The Penguin lands a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score that's higher than The Batman

Sofia Falcone and Oswald Cobb in The Penguin
(Image credit: HBO/Sky)

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The new HBO crime drama, starring Colin Farrell's Oz Cobb, is currently sitting pretty🐻 with a 93% critic score on the ꧑review aggregator. That's higher than 2022's The Batman, which managed 85% from, admittedly, a far wider range of reviewers.

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"Her charm as an actor will be unsurprising," our deputy entertainment editor Fay Watson wrote. "But it’s the sheer brutality that she brings to her role that really takes eve♉rything up a notch."

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Despite the hype, expectations should be tempered in one respect: don't expecꩵt Robert Pattinson's Batman to swoop in and save the day.

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The Penguin, also starring Rhenzy Feliz🍌 and Mark Strong, begins on HBO on September 19, with new episodes to follow weekly on Sundays.

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