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Oct 3, 2019 · Since its debut a few weeks ago at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the top prize, Todd Phillips’s “Joker” has stirred up quite a tempest. Hands have been wrung about the movie’s ...
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Joker, directed by Todd Phillips, is the worst kind of bad film. It’s a technically proficient and gorgeously presented falsehood. One that rejects responsibility as it strives to understand and ...
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Joker (2019 film) Joker. (2019 film) Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film [4] directed and co-produced by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he wrote with Scott Silver. The film, loosely based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. Set in 1981, it follows Arthur Fleck, a failed clown and aspiring stand-up ...
Aug 31, 2019 · A rating it thoroughly earns. The violence in this movie means to shock, and it does. Fleck’s alienation in the early scenes evokes Travis Bickle’s, but this movie is too chicken-livered to give Fleck Bickle’s racism, although it depicts him mostly getting hassled by people of color in the first third. Fleck is also fixated with a Carson ...
Aug 31, 2019 · “Joker” is a movie about a homicidal narcissist who feels entitled to the world’s attention — a man who’d rather kill for a good laugh than allow the world to treat him like its punchline.
Lacking the things that made the Joker actually the Joker, and not just another crazy murderer. 9/10. Not a spoon feeding of CGI fueled faux drama. brianmlucas 5 October 2019. The movie affects you in a way that makes it physically painful to experience, but in a good way. 1,028 out of 1,525 found this helpful.
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Aug 31, 2019 · The Joker's three modern live-action big-screen appearances (not counting the 1966 movie Batman based on the TV show) were 1989's Batman, 2008's The Dark Knight, and 2016's Suicide Squad, which ...