1993 · animation · crime · mystery
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Directed by Bruce Timm1h 16m1993
Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.
Our read: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive animation · crime · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme animation / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- extreme
- twisty
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