2014 · animation · action · adventure
Son of Batman
Directed by Ethan Spaulding1h 14m2014
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group known as The League of Assassins.
Our read: Son of Batman (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive animation · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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