Joker's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
Joaquin Phoenix provides a comic-book hero for the left behind with Joker, a brilliantly insurrectionist origins story. It?s a tale that?s almost as twisted as the man at its centre, bulging with ideas and pitching towards anarchy.
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.
Time Out
Joaquin Phoenix is devastating as the villain-in-the-making in this incendiary tale of psychological escape and psychopathy.
Variety
Joaquin Phoenix is astonishing as a mentally ill geek who becomes the killer-clown Joker in Todd Phillips' neo-'Taxi Driver' knockout: the rare comic-book movie that expresses what's happening in the real world.
The Hollywood Reporter
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.
The Playlist
'Joker' is so aesthetically impressive, effective, and persuasive of its own reality that you see clearly how easily it could be (mis)interpreted
Vanity Fair
The movie is, for a good stretch, a troubling and arresting character study, one done with nervy conviction. Eventually, though, Phillips has to more tightly attach this downward spiral to the larger Gotham mythology.
Indiewire
'Joker' is the boldest and most exciting superhero movie since 'The Dark Knight'. It's also incendiary, confused, and potentially toxic.
The Wrap
'Joker' is ultimately grim-and-gritty comic book nihilism jacked up to the nth degree, wrapped up in a convincing but ultimately hollow simulacra of better, smarter movies.
Time
The movie?s cracks ? and it?s practically all cracks ? are stuffed with phony philosophy. 'Joker' is dark only in a stupidly adolescent way, but it wants us to think it?s imparting subtle political or cultural wisdom.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote