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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Name: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Director: Bruce Timm
Genre: Animation, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1993-12-25
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda

1993 · 1h 16m · Animation, Crime, Mystery

IMDb 7.8 Metacritic 65 RT 83%

Watch it tonight—this is the gold standard of Batman animation and one of the best entries in the entire Dark Knight canon. It's got everything: a genuinely compelling mystery, emotional weight from Bruce's romance subplot, and animation that still holds up beautifully decades later. If you want to see what animated superhero storytelling can actually achieve, this is it.

Plot

Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.

Director: Bruce Timm

Cast: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda

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