Making the Villain the Main Character, Without Making Him a Hero

Rating: 9/10 (7 October 2019)

This is a deeply disturbing and uncomfortable cinematic experience, its atmosphere as brutal as its score is devastating, layered with multiple conflicting tones and an underlying senselessness of societal irony. But perhaps its greatest achievement is the performance at the heart of this grim character study, so alien, so irredeemable and so uncompromising in its amorality as to render it the antithesis of a relatable figure; told through a lens of masterful misdirection that fully realises the Clown Prince of Crime in a manner never seen before.