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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Sep 2019

For all its novelty and craft, Joker is more of a stylish stunt than anything else…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2019

The film is one that might have been dreamed up by one of the cynical douche bros from the Hangover during a blacked-out stupor…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 31 Aug 2019

For all its merits, however, Joker relies on perhaps a touch too much exposition as it attempts to shape a digestible origin story…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 31 Aug 2019

As social commentary, Joker is pernicious garbage…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 31 Aug 2019

Phoenix has created a masterful performance for a film which itself feels like a masterpiece: a cracked masterpiece…

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By Terri White (32) for Empire (3,446) on 31 Aug 2019

Bold, devastating and utterly beautiful, Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix have not just reimagined one of the most iconic villains in cinema…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 31 Aug 2019

Joaquin Phoenix is devastating as the villain-in-the-making in this incendiary tale of psychological escape and psychopathy…

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By Jordan Farley (104) for Total Film (3,532) on 31 Aug 2019

More character study than comic book movie, and anchored by an Oscar-worthy Joaquin Phoenix, Joker is a bravura blockbuster that proves you…

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By Jim Vejvoda (203) for IGN (1,013) on 31 Aug 2019

Featuring a riveting, fully realized, and Oscar-worthy performance by Joaquin Phoenix, Joker would work just as well as an engrossing character…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 31 Aug 2019

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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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Aug 2019

In amongst Joker’s fire and blood and chaos and its blackest of blackhearted laughter, there is the sense of a grotesque, green-haired genie…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 31 Aug 2019

This is Phoenix's film, and he inhabits it with an insanity by turns pitiful and fearsome in an out-there performance that's no laughing matter…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 31 Aug 2019

A villain will rise, as he must, and the inevitability of that spectacle is the source of this movie’s undeniable power as well as its real…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 31 Aug 2019

The movie is, for a good stretch, a troubling and arresting character study, one done with nervy conviction…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 31 Aug 2019

It’s good enough to be dangerous, and bad enough to demand better…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 31 Aug 2019

The broadness of Phoenix’s work allows the rest of the ensemble — particularly Conroy, Zazie Beetz as a single-mom neighbor, and MVP character…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 31 Aug 2019

Phoenix is acting so hard you can feel the desperation throbbing in his veins…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for The Guardian (2,969) on 31 Aug 2019

What a gloriously daring and explosive film Joker is…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 31 Aug 2019

A part of me found Todd Phillips’s radical rethinking of the Batman villain Joker thrillingly uncompromising and hair-raisingly timely…

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