Films like Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / animation, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011) poster
1. Green Lantern: Emerald Knights2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) poster
2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006) poster
3. Ultimate Avengers: The Movie2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) poster
4. X-Men: The Last Stand2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) poster
5. Green Lantern: First Flight2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising (2013) poster
6. Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

X-Men (2000) poster
7. X-Men2000

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015) poster
8. Justice League: Throne of Atlantis2015

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017) poster
9. Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022) poster
10. Green Lantern: Beware My Power2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006) poster
11. Ultimate Avengers 22006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Transformers: Titans Return (2017) poster
12. Transformers: Titans Return2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Superman/Batman: Public Enemies’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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