All reviews by Rohan Naahar
| Director: | Todd Phillips |
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| Cast: | Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Leigh Gill, Josh Pais |
| Writer: | Todd Phillips, Scott Silver |
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama (English)
Todd Phillips would rather set fire to his own franchise than let the wrong people take inspiration from it; is Vanga watching?
Fri, October 11 2024
A perverse punchline to a joke that has been played on all of us, Todd Phillips' Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, is bolder, bigger, and altogether braver than the first film.
You’d think that the world was a less paranoid place five years ago, when the collective trauma of the pandemic hadn’t clobbered us on the head with a comically large mallet. But remember when governments were put on high alert before the release of a comic book movie about a murderous clown? Prepared for the riots that the supposedly incendiary film might incite, teams of police were stationed outside certain screenings of Todd Phillips’ Joker — a movie that was viewed by alarmists as a sort of dog whistle for basement-dwelling incels.
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