Films like Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) reads as Neutral, breathless, extreme animation / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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