Joaquin Phoenix is awesome

Rating: 8/10 (16 February 2020)

Joker is a disturbing film with a riveting performance by Joaquin Phoenix as an unstable man making a living as a clown. He lives with and takes care of his mother who is crazier than he is. Robert DeNiro is cast as a Johnny Carson type of talk show host whose biggest fan is our hero clown. The violence is over the top but is necessary, much in the way it was in "A Clockwork Orange,"another vicious but realistic film great from 1970. Kubrick'
s masterpiece is an obvious influence on "Joker" but it is a worthy entry into this field of dystopian dramas. One of the ten best movies of 2020.