2020 · animation · action · sci-fi
Superman: Man of Tomorrow
Directed by Chris Palmer1h 27m2020
It’s the dawn of a new age of heroes, and Metropolis has just met its first. But as Daily Planet intern Clark Kent – working alongside reporter Lois Lane – secretly wields his alien powers of flight, super-strength and x-ray vision in the battle for good, there’s even greater trouble on the horizon.
Our read: Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
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How Superman feels to watch.
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