Joker: Folie à Deux - Arvostelut

Lady Gaga shines in a provocative prison musical.

...Phoenix clearly knows this character inside out by now. His posture is even more disconcerting this time; the actor is still shockingly gaunt, but the way he carries himself speaks to a body that has endured a life of abuse...

...it’s a film you feel might burst into flames at any given moment.

...like its predecessor, it’s an extraordinary, extravagant, and audacious piece of filmmaking that makes us feel uneasy and uncomfortable and, at times, fills us with joy. Joker: Folie à Deux is anything but a cinematic folly. Outstanding.

...Lady Gaga delivers a diva charge. Could it be that her Harley Quinn will return in an adventure of her own?

...a gruelingly miserable psychological study of a depraved, self-pitying mind that leaves no room for pity – but does squeeze in a bunch of musical numbers.

...no other adaptation has burrowed this far under the character’s face-painted, mutilated skin.

...a brooding tale that works hard to reinvent the comic book movie.

...a boldly unconventional blockbuster that feels at once as disposable as any, yet has these tiny, almost irritating threads that when pulled upon reveal method to the madness.

One admires Phillips’ willingness to take such a big swing, to attempt something uniquely dark and forcefully unreal — and to be sure, a handful of insanely inspired sequences achieve that end.

Of all the things Phillips does better in “Joker: Folie à Deux” than he did in “Joker,” the best is by far his course correction in catering to radical misogynists.