Joker (2019)

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2020)

When it was announced Joker would provide Gotham's "Clown Prince of Crime", a villain notoriously shrouded in mystery, a backstory of a failed comedian named Arthur Fleck, everyone laughed. When it was said that this origin story was to be directed by Todd Phillips, a director previously best-known for The Hangover trilogy, again everyone laughed. In the words of Arthur Fleck - "Well, no one's laughing now". Joker is a mature and engrossing reinvention of one of cinema's most iconic characters.