Review of Joker (2019) by Dana Stevens for Slate — 03 Oct 2019
Joker is a bad movie, yes: It’s predictable, clichéd, deeply derivative of other, better movies, and overwritten to the point of self-parody. (If a feature-length sendup of Joker was made, it’s hard to imagine in what details it would differ from Joker itself.
) 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 claustrophobia and boredom.
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This review of Joker (2019) was written by Dana Stevens and published by Slate on 03 Oct 2019.
Joker has generally received very positive reviews.
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