Absolutely incredible

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2019)

This is a masterpiece and will be looked up as such in times to come. Phoenix will rightly get an award for his performance, but it's not just down to him. Everything about the film just oozes class. It is one of those rare films that you leave the theatre content that the producers did everything they could to make the best possible version of the film.
The trailers, for once, didn't give much away. I was on the edge of my seat in the climatic moment of the film as it built up and left you very uncertain in which direction it might turn. I even found some moments bizarrely amusing, laughing so loud that I was glared at - I very, very rarely laugh at films since I became an adult.
For me personally, this is the best film of the decade. I have rarely been through the rollercoaster of thought, emotion, anticipation, and excitement that I experienced during Joker. You almost root for him at points, coming dangerously close to empathising with his plight as he steps over those uncomfortable lines that differentiate the psychopaths from the everyday folk. DC could do much worse than to use this as an opportunity to reboot their current disastrous brand of their comic book universe.