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on When a masked killer murders the son of a Mayor, Batman is called to investigate.

Not in public domain. Description sounds generic.
on I, Little Bunny Foo Foo, incorrectly branded a monster by folklore, beat the fucking shit out of the Easter Bunny, the true candy-coated dick who uses colorful plastic eggs to prey on unsuspecting children during the holiday. ★ Accepted

Okay, I enjoy dark comedy and this one is 'out there.' I assume animated? Half the logline is dedicated to the Easter Bunny. "Beats the shit out of" (should be beats; not beat) and the movie is over? Is this…
on When elderly Martha discovers a murder scene next door, she decides not to report it but instead get to the bottom of it herself. She could not have predicted the series of events that would soon unfold and turn her own world upside down.

Proper names are usually not used in loglines (unless you are writing about a famous person). So ax the Martha and instead pick a characteristic (flaw) that the story will bring to the surface/force her to evolve. One sentence is…
on When a flight attendant smuggles on a chainsaw and starts butchering passengers mid-flight, an aerophobe must bottle his panic to take down the killer and save his family on board.

Tone of this? Horror or spoof? Smuggles on a chainsaw is so absurd it seems like a spoof (but... Snakes on a Plane was an odd mix of horror over the top that worked for audiences). But chainsaw is so…
on When his liquor licence is stripped due to unpaid bills, a neurotic publican must win the local fishing competition’s cash prize, but when he realises he is competing against his abusive father, he must control his manic behaviour to out-fish him and save the pub he calls home.

Not sure what a "publican" is and likely too obscure a term for a logline. A fishing contest always seemed absurd to me, but I have concerns (knowing how dull fishing is) about what we would be watching. But I…
on A fragile but lovingly broken man, unexpectedly finds himself a single mom who reignites his spirit but her haunting past threatens their building romance.

"Finds" = ?? Makes it sound like he's the single mom. When he meets/ romances / falls for? It just feels too generic, and the stakes are unclear.
on After ICE arrests his undocumented girlfriend during a raid, a quick-witted loafer who joined only to skim money from the agency he despises must risk exposure to smuggle her from detention before she is deported.

I'm concerned about "loafer" making him passive / inactive. He seems active based on what he does in your description.
on When a publicity-hungry mayor hires a recently released felon—imprisoned for secretly giving luxury vacations to families who couldn’t afford them—to run tourism for his failing Florida town, Matt Stevens must turn Sunny Cove into a destination people actually want to visit, despite one glaring problem: there is no cove and no sun.

Normally (unless it is a biopic) you wouldn't use the name of a character, but rather something about their character flaw and occupation. "...a former hitman, still mourningn the loss of his beloved wife, is drawn back into..." John Wick.…