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Sep 30, 2019 · As social commentary, "Joker" is pernicious garbage. But besides the wacky pleasures of Phoenix's performance, it also displays some major movie studio core competencies, in a not dissimilar way to what "A Star Is Born" presented last year. (Bradley Cooper is a producer.)
Oct 3, 2019 · “Joker” is a supervillain origin story, involving a character whose big-screen résumé already includes three Oscar winners (two for other roles, but still). It’s not hard to see the appeal. The...
Aug 31, 2019 · Built around a credible spiral from lonely outsider to deranged killer, it’s as much a neo-noir psychological character study grounded in urban alienation and styled after Taxi Driver as a...
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise...
- Crime, Drama
Sep 30, 2019 · Joker Review: Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) isn’t happy with his life. He struggles to make money as a part-time clown while sharing a rundown apartment with his ailing mom (Frances Conroy). But Arthur lives in a city struck by hard times where a decent, honest living is difficult to come by.
Oct 3, 2019 · An iconic comic-book villain gets an appropriately epic origin story in Joker, which allows Joaquin Phoenix’s raw talent its grandest stage yet. Read More By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
Aug 31, 2019 · “Joker” is a comic-book tale rendered with sinister topical fervor. When Arthur, on the elevator, connects with Sophie (Zazie Beetz), his neighbor, the two take turns miming Travis Bickle’s...
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...
Sep 27, 2019 · Anthony Lane reviews Todd Phillips’s “Joker,” which stars Joaquin Phoenix, who, in the title role, invites us to watch the character’s wrongness grow out of control and swell into violence.
Aug 31, 2019 · Reviews are in for Todd Phillips’ standalone origin story Joker, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic villain. The film, written by Phillips and Scott Silver, is described as a gritty...
