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  1. Joker, directed by Todd Phillips, is the worst kind of bad film. It’s a technically proficient and gorgeously presented falsehood.

  2. Oct 22, 2021 · Joker is a bad movie, yes: It’s predictable, clichéd, deeply derivative of other, better movies, and overwritten to the point of self-parody... The experience of sitting through it is highly unpleasant, but that unpleasantness has less to do with graphic violence—there are only one or two scenes that go hard, gore-wise—than with ...

    • Hannah Shaw-Williams
  3. Aug 31, 2019 · Joaquin Phoenix is astonishing as the mentally ill geek who becomes the killer-clown Joker in Todd Phillips' neo-'Taxi Driver' knockout.

  4. 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.

    • Todd Phillips
    • 2 min
  5. 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.)

  6. 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.

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  8. Oct 4, 2019 · Oct. 4, 2019 9:44 AM PT. From concerns over its depiction of violence to wildly divisive reviews, the new movieJoker” has generated an enormous amount of pre-release anxiety, conversation and...

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