Joker: A masterclass in darkness
Joaquin Phoenix delivers a compelling performance in Joker, writes John Maguire
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Joker is no laughing matter. The new origin story for Batman’s arch nemesis, directed by Todd Phillips and co-written with Scott Silver, details the terrible beginnings of the kind of man whose isolation and disaffection turns violent, whose untreated mental ill ness and poisoned sense of identity curdles into blind hate, the ...