First Review Of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker Is In, Find Out What Critics Are Saying About This Todd Phillips Movie

Will Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker set another par to the Crown prince of Crime after Heath Ledger’s exceptional performance in 'The Dark Knight'? Critics are saying yes! After getting 8 minutes long standing-ovation, the Todd Phillips movie is once again set to make all movie-goers give another round of standing ovation if we are to go by the reviews and ratings. With an astounding 9.4 ratings by IMDb and 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, the psychological thriller could as well be one of Phoenix’s best performance.

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-Owen Gleiberman from Variety.

"Joker" is on the surface the origin of a supervillain but more subtly an exploration of empathy and the personal impact of a society devoid of it- Brian Truitt- from USA Today

Min-sik Yoon- Korea Herald-There are films that push you to the limit, have you on the edge, and then there's Joker, starring the brilliance of Joaquin Phoenix.

Anthony Lane - New Yorker The strenuous effort of Phoenix's performance that it becomes exhausting to behold. Get a load of me, he seems to say, and the load is almost too much to bear.

Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is an unsuccessful clown and an even more unsuccessful stand-up comedian. As he attempts to simply exist in a broken-down and beaten-up Gotham City, a sequence of violent events will lead to a revolt in the city and the birth of the Joker-Terry White from Empire giving a full 5 out of 5.

Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker hit the big screen on October 2.