2019 · action · animation · crime
Batman: Hush
Directed by Justin Copeland1h 22m2019
A mysterious new villain known only as Hush uses a gallery of villains to destroy Batman's crime-fighting career as well as Bruce Wayne's personal life, which has been further complicated by a relationship with Selina Kyle/Catwoman.
Our read: Batman: Hush (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · animation · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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