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Guns_of_Verdun
06/10/23 1:59:53 PM
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Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine, in a negative review, labeled Phoenix's performance over-the-top and felt that while Phillips tried to "[give] us a movie all about the emptiness of our culture... he's just offering a prime example of it". She argued the plot was nonexistent, "dark only in a stupidly adolescent way" and "stuffed with phony philosophy".

Meanwhile, NPR's Glen Weldon thought the film lacked innovation and said its sympathetic take on the Joker was "wildly unconvincing and mundanely uninteresting". Weldon also described Joker as trying too hard to deviate from the comics and, as a result, coming off as an imitation of films like Taxi Driver.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it "the most disappointing film of the year". While praising Phoenix's performance and the first act, he criticized the film's political plot developments and overall found it too derivative of various Scorsese films.

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Joker holds an approval rating of 69% based on 597 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10.

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100 based on 60 critics, indicating "mixed or average

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SrRd_RacinG
06/10/23 2:00:19 PM
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I thought it was ok. A 75 is appropriate.

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FolkenRawr
06/10/23 2:01:10 PM
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SrRd_RacinG posted...
I thought it was ok. A 75 is appropriate.

Yea, that's about right. Probably give it closer to 65-70, though.

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R1masher
06/10/23 2:01:57 PM
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I liked it enough to finish it, wont rewatch it

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Kradek
06/10/23 2:02:38 PM
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I really enjoyed it as a standalone movie, I don't know how well that Joke would translate to a Batman franchise where he's like dealing with Batman, though. Good thing Matt Reeves stated he intentionally had no plans for that and still doesn't cause he wanted it to be standalone.

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lilORANG
06/10/23 2:03:08 PM
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It made a billion dollars on a $60M budget. Very impressive

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Ratchetrockon
06/10/23 2:03:14 PM
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i was hoping joker would terrorize the city a bit more >.<

so disappointing

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Godshammer666
06/10/23 2:05:21 PM
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I liked it but it is very much like The King Of Comedy, but more like an homage than a rip off. I assumed thats why they cast Deniro for that role.

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Blue_Popo
06/10/23 2:06:56 PM
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I only thought it was decent, like 7/10
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Turbam
06/10/23 2:10:48 PM
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The best part was when he told all those guys "I'm the joker baby!"

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Kradek
06/10/23 2:12:07 PM
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Ratchetrockon posted...
i was hoping joker would terrorize the city a bit more >.<

so disappointing

There's a sequel in the works that's logically will mostly be who he becomes at the end of the movie, which was mostly establishing how he became who he becomes.

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Ricemills
06/13/23 4:22:19 AM
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It's an ok psychological movie that rides on superhero movies fame.

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Doe
06/13/23 4:32:12 AM
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Didn't this movie win the Golden Lion

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ai123
06/13/23 4:35:17 AM
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A lot of those criticisms are valid.

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Irony
06/13/23 4:35:35 AM
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Doe posted...
Didn't this movie win the Golden Lion
Yes

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Questionmarktarius
06/13/23 4:36:34 AM
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to be fair, Joaquin Phoenix was way the hell better at being Johnny Cash than being the Joker.
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SuperShake666
06/13/23 4:43:07 AM
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Ratchetrockon posted...
i was hoping joker would terrorize the city a bit more >.<

so disappointing

Depending on how you view it, he did a lot of that indirectly.

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jumi
06/13/23 4:54:59 AM
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Turbam posted...
The best part was when he told all those guys "I'm the joker baby!"

Then he morbed all over the place!

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Questionmarktarius
06/13/23 4:56:10 AM
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jumi posted...
Then he morbed all over the place!
Because, joked all over the place was perfected by Cesar Romero, and can never really happen again without just seeming faked.
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jumi
06/13/23 4:57:48 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Because, joked all over the place was perfected by Cesar Romero, and can never really happen again without just seeming faked.

Everybody's morbing now, thanks that other Joker actor's greatest role.

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Questionmarktarius
06/13/23 4:58:48 AM
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jumi posted...
Everybody's morbing now, thanks that other Joker actor's greatest role.
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