Review Roundup: Joker
‘Joker’ Gets Eight-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice Premiere https://t.co/EHLayaSP3D
- Variety (@Variety) August 31, 2019
Joker just premiered at Venice, where it had a eight-minute standing ovation. Here's what the critics are saying about the film. Joaquin is coming for the Oscar.
The film currently has a 75 on MetaCritic.
"Joker" wants to be a movie about the emptiness of our culture. Instead, it’s a prime - and dangerous - example of it https://t.co/GPqm26UiFE
- TIME (@TIME) August 31, 2019
Time hated it, says Phoenix is acting way too hard.
Joaquin Phoenix is astonishing in 'Joker,' and the movie is a hypnotically perverse, ghoulishly gripping knockout. My review from Venice: https://t.co/0xCVGmcSmk
- Owen Gleiberman (@OwenGleiberman) August 31, 2019
Variety, on the other hand, thought Phoenix and the film as a whole, was astonishing.
"What's so compelling about the title role, both as written and in Phoenix's full-throttle, raw performance, is that we're encouraged to feel sympathy for the Joker even as he's clearly turning into a homicidal maniac." Read the review of #Joker: https://t.co/DURbfLCRit
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 31, 2019
As did The Hollywood Reporter.
JOKER: visionary & derivative. radical & cowardly. the boldest comic book movie since The Dark Knight & also just another day in Chuckletown.
JOKER is all contradictions & chaotic evil. for better or worse, it’s the movie the Joker would want.
my review: https://t.co/2lNydWOPgm pic.twitter.com/pPXMDNNAmv
- david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) August 31, 2019
And for better or worse, superhero movies will probably never be the same after this.
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