2015 · animation · crime · adventure
Phantom Boy
Directed by Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli1h 22m2015
At a hospital in New York, Alex, a police officer, meets Leo, a boy who has the ability to get out of his body and pass through the walls like a ghost. Both team up with Mary, an intrepid journalist, to capture a disfigured villain who terrorizes the city.
Our read: Phantom Boy (2015) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · crime · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured animation / crime, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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