Synopsis
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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Cast
- Joaquin PhoenixArthur Fleck / Joker
- Robert De NiroMurray Franklin
- Zazie BeetzSophie Dumond
- Frances ConroyPenny Fleck
- Brett CullenThomas Wayne
- Shea WhighamDetective Burke
- Bill CampDetective Garrity
- Glenn FleshlerRandall
- Leigh GillGary
- Josh PaisHoyt Vaughn
Recommandations
- 100
IGN
Featuring a riveting, fully realized, and Oscar-worthy performance by Joaquin Phoenix, Joker would work just as well as an engrossing character study without any of its DC Comics trappings; that it just so happens to be a brilliant Batman-universe movie is icing on the Batfan cake. You will likely leave Joker feeling like I did: unsettled and ready to debate the film for years to come. - 100
Total Film
More character study than comic book movie, and anchored by an Oscar-worthy Joaquin Phoenix, Joker is a bravura blockbuster that proves you don’t need superpowered scraps to dazzle. - 100
Time Out
Joaquin Phoenix is devastating as the villain-in-the-making in this incendiary tale of psychological escape and psychopathy. - 100
Empire
Bold, devastating and utterly beautiful, Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix have not just reimagined one of the most iconic villains in cinema history, but reimagined the comic book movie itself. - 80
The Telegraph
A part of me found Todd Phillips’s radical rethinking of the Batman villain Joker thrillingly uncompromising and hair-raisingly timely. Another thinks it should be locked in a strongbox then dropped in the ocean and never released. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
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. Not to discredit the imaginative vision of the writer-director, his co-scripter and invaluable tech and design teams, but Phoenix is the prime force that makes Joker such a distinctively edgy entry in the Hollywood comics industrial complex. - 75
The Film Stage
For all its merits, however, Joker relies on perhaps a touch too much exposition as it attempts to shape a digestible origin story. - 58
IndieWire
It’s good enough to be dangerous, and bad enough to demand better. It’s going to turn the world upside down and make us all hysterical in the process. For better or worse, it’s exactly the movie the Joker would want.
