It takes only a few minutes for Joker to spell out the closest thing this movie has to a point. "Is it just me," Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix) asks, "or are things getting really crazy out there?" ...

Clayface may not be as widely known as The Penguin or The Joker, but we really ... died to have produced this movie, because ...

But the film felt disconnected from Joker’s history and more like a critique of poverty and social isolation than a comic book movie. Phoenix’s reappearance in sequel Joker: Folie à Deux ...