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It’s been two years since failed party clown/comedian Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) became a folk "hero" of sorts in Gotham City, putting on garish face paint and getting locked up at Arkham State ...
Joker: Folie à Deux [a] is a 2024 American jukebox musical [10] psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Based on DC Comics characters, it is a sequel to Joker (2019). Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the Joker, with Lady Gaga as his love interest.
Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to the 2019 Joaquin Phoenix film, has scored an unwanted Rotten Tomatoes score as more critics release their reviews of the film.. Initial responses to the ...
“Joker: Folie à Deux” first premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 4, with the sequel receiving mixed reviews from critics who critiqued the thin plot and musical performances.
The original "Joker" won the Golden Lion at Venice in 2019 and went on to earn 11 Academy Award nominations, the most of any film that year. Phoenix won the Oscar for best actor.
The film earned mostly negative reviews and flopped at the box office with $58 million domestically and $206 million worldwide, a far cry from the 2019 original’s $1 billion gross.
The film seems more concerned with what others — the media, the throngs outside the courthouse — expect Joker to be. It’s so detached from the supervillain narrative that it’s almost meta.
Related: All About Joker: Folie à Deux Starring Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix The Irish Times' Tara Brady gave the movie three stars out of five and wrote that Phoenix, 49, remains "a sight to ...