Despite all of this, I was still looking forward to seeing it. (What was I expecting? Although Joker has been criticized for being irresponsible, erratic, foggy, and even racist, “holy shit this is boring as the fuck” is a critique I haven’t read or heard. Its reception reminds me of the sort of whiteness calculus that occurs when white male developers and inventors get millions (sometimes billions) in investments despite half-assed and unbaked pitches and products. Unfortunately, the critics might have gotten this movie all wrong. The rest of the movie wallows in that disgust, seeming to relish the bathos of its own protagonist’s abjection and isolation. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. It’s like watching ice melt. I knew it’d be a goulash of loud and important-sounding themes— “mental health!” “economic anxiety!” “capitalism!”—without actually saying much about any of them. Which was, effectively, the world’s first meme; a two-hour representation of funny things in place of actual funny things. We encountered an issue signing you up. It’s just so damn...boring. The ‘Joker’ Movie Review: A Mans Boring Descent into Madness, Quibi Shuts Its Doors Not Long After Opening Them, PayPal joins Square to offer Cryptocurrency, Apple Unveils New iPhone 12, Audio Devices and Better Chargers, CBD Seltzer Water is the Latest Craze: 6 Brands We Love, Zoom Adds New Features Focusing on Events and Apps, Sparkling Ice 'Spiked' Shakes Up The Hard Seltzer Industry, Best Tech Gadgets and Holiday Gifts for 2020, “Fighting With My Family” is a Charming Movie for WWE Fanatics. But if you want an honest review of what you can expect before paying to see the movie, continue down below. Like De Niro, he’s a technical powerhouse of an actor playing a part he could do blindfolded. Joker’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the end of August was greeted (mostly) with critical rapture, and the film was awarded the top prize, the Golden Lion. The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth. Ellipses on a neon billboard. Please try again. Meanwhile, plenty of other reviewers suggested that, incitement to mass revolt aside, the movie was bombastic, unoriginal, and just plain bad. Yeah, you’re getting something that reminds you of better but you got exactly out of it exactly what you paid for it. Mostly, Joker was what I expected it to be. A sea of melancholy white men in trench coats, maybe? Since his Oscar nomination for playing Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, Phoenix has been drawn to roles that touch on the extremes of inner experience.