Joker English Movie Review

Joker English Movie

Feature Film | 2019 | Action, Drama, Thriller

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3.4

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4.3

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Review by: Terri White - Empire

Bold, devastating and utterly beautiful, Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix have not just reimagined one of the most iconic villains in cinema history, but reimagined the comic book movie itself.
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Review by: Screen International - Tim Grierson

An iconic comic-book villain gets an appropriately epic origin story in Joker, which allows Joaquin Phoenix’s raw talent its grandest stage yet.
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Review by: FilmCompanion

Artful nihilism that dazzles but is hard to get behind. The film gives us a view of a deranged world but it never attempts to offer more than a simplistic causality.
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Review by: David Ehrlich - Indiewire

It’s good enough to be dangerous, and bad enough to demand better. It’s going to turn the world upside down and make us all hysterical in the process. For better or worse, it’s exactly the movie the Joker would want.
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Review by: Stephanie Zacharek - Time

Phoenix is acting so hard you can feel the desperation throbbing in his veins. He leaves you wanting to start him a GoFundMe, so he won’t have to pour so much sweat into his job again. But the aggressive terribleness of his performance isn’t completely his fault.
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Review by: Justin Chang - Los Angeles Times

Joaquin Phoenix puts on quite a show in ‘Joker.’ And the portrait of madness is both bleak and glib.
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Review by: Sarah Kurchak - Consequence of Sound

Neither Todd Phillips’ hollow script nor his hey-check-this-shit-out direction offer much to work with, but Phoenix still manages to wring enough out of Fleck to make Joker almost work as a character study.
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Review by: Glenn Kenny - rogerebert.com

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.
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Review by: David Sims - The Atlantic

Yes, Joker is a very serious drama. No, That’s Not a Compliment. Bent on proving its distance from the comic-book-movie genre, Todd Phillips’s adaptation of a classic villain’s origin story is pompous, grim, and one-note.
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Review by: Xan Brooks - The Guardian

What a gloriously daring and explosive film Joker is. It’s a tale that’s almost as twisted as the man at its centre, bulging with ideas and pitching towards anarchy.
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