Shortly it's amazing

Rating: 10/10 (3 October 2019)

Joaquin Phoenix offers his own version of DC Comics' laughing psychopath in the upcoming Warner Bros. Joker movie. It's out Oct. 4, but it's already gotten rave reviews from critics and film festival audiences. In September, Joker took home the Golden Lion top prize at the Venice Film Festival. That's no surprise since a week earlier, it got an eight-minute standing ovation from festival audience members who watched an early screening.
"As the mentally ill and socially ignored Arthur, Phoenix burns a hole in the screen," our CNET reviewer Rich Trenholm writes. "From the opening moment when he cracks his mouth into an unnerving fake smile, the three-time Oscar nominee commands your attention."