Storyline
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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Cast
Josh Pais, Joaquin Phoenix, Shea Whigham, Robert De Niro, Bryan Callen, Sharon Washington, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Marc Maron, Douglas Hodge, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Brian Tyree Henry, Leigh Gill, Zazie Beetz, Dante Pereira-Olson, Jolie Chan, Mary Kate Malat, Evan Rosado, Adrienne Lovette, Mandela Bellamy
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Reviews
100
IGN
Featuring a riveting, fully realized, and Oscar-worthy performance by Joaquin Phoenix, Joker would work just as well as an engrossing character study without any of its DC Comics trappings; that it just so happens to be a brilliant Batman-universe movie is icing on the Batfan cake. You will likely leave Joker feeling like I did: unsettled and ready to debate the film for years to come.
100
More character study than comic book movie, and anchored by an Oscar-worthy Joaquin Phoenix, Joker is a bravura blockbuster that proves you don’t need superpowered scraps to dazzle.
100
Time Out
Joaquin Phoenix is devastating as the villain-in-the-making in this incendiary tale of psychological escape and psychopathy.
100
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.
80
A part of me found Todd Phillips’s radical rethinking of the Batman villain Joker thrillingly uncompromising and hair-raisingly timely. Another thinks it should be locked in a strongbox then dropped in the ocean and never released.
