Joker

Year: 2019

Grade: A-

Country: USA

Director: Phillips

Review

really great film and phenomenal performance. i thought there was no way that phoenix (talented as he is) would approach the genius performance of heath ledger in dark knight. and yet he did just that. i can’t honestly say which is better. they are both all-time great performances and totally unique. amazing to think that jack nicholson (who is better than either of them) took this same role and didn’t really do much with it. there’s some revisionism in the telling of the early batman story (it wasn’t actually the joker who killed him in this telling), but i’m not a purist or someone who cares about comic canon or anything like that. soundtrack was really good also. really, though, it’s about phoenix’s performance. great job.

Watched in theater