The actor took only one turn in the famous batsuit. That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative artifact of its era.

One of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 1990s — an actor whose range encompassed everything from broad comedy to dark thrillers to the Dark Knight himself — has died. According to The New York Times,

The key to Val Kilmer’s appeal may lie in the performance he gave in a film many think of as a throwaway, Joel Schumacher’s shiny, intentionally kitschy, and absurdly entertaining Batman Forever, from 1995.