‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ review: A middle finger to fans of Lady Gaga, the DC movies, and musicals

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ review: A middle finger to fans of Lady Gaga, the DC movies, and musicals

When critics called for superhero movies to do something different, we didn’t mean Joker: Folie à Deux.  In 2019’s Joker, co-writer/director Todd Phillips stole heavily from Martin Scorsese’s earlier films to re-imagine the iconic Batman villain as a put-upon everyman on the brink of breakdown and infamy. Earning over a billion dollars worldwide and 11…

Joker: Folie à Deux Review: A disappointing sequel?

Joker: Folie à Deux Review: A disappointing sequel?

PLOT: While on trial for his life, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) meets a fellow psychiatric patient named Lee (Lady Gaga), who is obsessed with the crimes he committed as Joker. REVIEW: It’s almost comical to think now, but there was a time, shortly before Todd Phillips’s Joker opened in theaters, that critics and journalists –…