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Film Review - Joker: Folie à Deux
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Film Review - Joker: Folie à Deux

Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga impress in Todd Phillips’s flawed but fascinating sequel

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Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) caused something of a stir during its release five years ago. Amid the acclaim were concerns over whether this film glamorised its protagonist in a pseudo-incel sort of way, though chiefly in the US (in the UK, it didn’t provoke any real controversy). Personally, I found this Batman villain origin stor…

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