Joker Reviews
Feature Film | Action, Drama, Thriller
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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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Terri White - Empire
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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Screen International - Tim Grierson
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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FilmCompanion
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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David Ehrlich - Indiewire
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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Stephanie Zacharek - Time
Joaquin Phoenix puts on quite a show in ‘Joker.’ And the portrait of madness is both bleak and glib.
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Justin Chang - Los Angeles Times
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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Sarah Kurchak - Consequence of Sound
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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Glenn Kenny - rogerebert.com
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