Robin Atkin Downes

Batman: Year One (2011)

Batman: Year One (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 20, 2012Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
Animated adaptation of the classic Frank Miller graphic novel, this is dark, psychologically brooding, far more adult than the children's niche it is sold to, and with producer Bruce Timm and his team at the top of their game
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Justice League: Doom (2012)

Justice League: Doom (2012)
Rating: ★★
May 7, 2012Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
A relative disappointment among the mostly excellent animated DC superhero films, this offers up far too diagrammatic and dramatically underdeveloped a pitting of each Justice League member with a matching super-villain only to seemingly kill them off
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Superman vs. The Elite (2012)

Superman vs. The Elite (2012)
Rating: ★★
Mar 7, 2017Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
This adapts What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?, the highly acclaimed graphic novel that was written as a response to 9/11. Unfortunately, I am not sure condensing the story into a 76 animated film fully does justice to the complex debate of the original
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part II (2013)

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part II (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
May 6, 2013Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
The second of the two-part animated adaptation of Frank Miller's classic graphic novel. The film is staged as a series of epic confrontations between iconic DC characters and written with a dark bite to emerge much more satisfying than the first part
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The Conjuring 2 (2016)

The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 19, 2016Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
If you want a genuinely scary spook show that will make you jump out of your seat, you would not go wrong with this. On the other hand, the Conjuring films with their claims to true stories of peddle superstition and fabricate most of their so-called facts
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Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Rating: ★★★★
Aug 6, 2016Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
Adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel, one of the most famous comic-book titles of all time. The notoriously cranky Moore need have no reason to shun this film version, which recreates his work right down to preserving his dialogue and replicating the set-up of individual panels
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Constantine: City of Demons (2018)

Constantine: City of Demons (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 13, 2019Animation/Occult Investigator/Comic Book Adaptation
The Dc Comics character John Constantine was made into an animated web series that was compiled as this film. One is quite taken aback at how much more edgy and adult this is than most of DC's animated offerings
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