The storyline in and of itself is not a total miss. As social commentary, "Joker" is pernicious garbage. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV.
To my knowledge, Todd Phillips' Joker is the first of the Gotham based films to. It barely even works within the confines of its own genre, the comic-book movie. "Joker" is a supervillain origin story, involving a character whose big-screen résumé already includes three. This is an advance review tied to the Venice Film Festival.
You can watch our video review for Joker in the player above. The aim of the Joker has always been to sow chaos and panic in the citizens of Gotham City. Parents need to know that Joker is an intense, complex, powerful thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix as the famous Batman villain. It's far darker and more violent than other takes on the character. Expect extremely graphic killings and blood spatters/sprays, guns and shooting, and stabbing. Joker review - the most disappointing film of the year Why so serious?
Trailer Joker
Todd Phillips' solemn but shallow supervillain origins movie has a strong performance by Joaquin Phoenix but is weighed. With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy. In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society.
He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker. The film, based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker and provides a possible origin story for the character. W hen I saw that the New York Times and The New Yorker had run columns berating the new Joker movie, criticizing.