Early reactions to Joker: Folie à Deux suggest a blend of 'brilliance' and <br>
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The film sees the return of Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar-winning portrayal <br>
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of Arthur Fleck/Joker and the addition of <br>
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pop powerhouse Lady Gaga as Joker's love interest Harley Quinn.<br>
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Premiering to a full house at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday,<br>
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the eagerly awaited sequel to Todd Phillips' billion-dollar hit <br>
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While some found it 'superior' to the acclaimed 2019 film and lauded the <br>
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performances of both Phoenix and Gaga, others slammed Joker: Folie à Deux as <br>
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DailyMail's Brian Viner called the movie musical 'audaciously different in style from the original, not quite as electrifying, but bold and brilliant <br>
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all the same.'<br>
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Early reactions to Joker: Folie à Deux suggest a blend of 'brilliance' and 'boredom', leading <br>
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to a mixed bag of reviews <br>
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While some found it 'superior' to the acclaimed 2019 film and lauded <br>
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the performances of both Phoenix and Gaga, others <br>
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slammed Joker: Folie à Deux as 'derivative' and devoid of 'fun' <br>
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Lady Gaga puts on a loved-up display with her fiancé Michael Polansky at Joker premiere<br>
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Owen Gleiberman appeared a bit less impressed in his review for <br>
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Variety, writing that the 'cracked jukebox musical' had an audacious concept, <br>
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'but in a basic way it's an overly cautious sequel.' <br>
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IndieWire's David Ehrlich took a bit of a harsher <br>
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tone, saying the 138-minute flick is 'boring, flat, and a criminal <br>
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waste of Lady Gaga,' adding it feels 'bad on purpose.' <br>
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He added: 'Phillips has created a corporate pop <br>
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spectacle that all but demands to be seen as something else. <br>
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'Here is a movie that perversely denies audiences <br>
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everything they've been conditioned to want from it; gently at first, <br>
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and then later with the unmistakable hostility of a knife to the <br>
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'And that, more than anything else, is why Folie à Deux adopts <br>
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the form of a classic musical: Because no other genre makes it <br>
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so easy to appreciate all the fun you're not having.' <br>
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In contrast, Alex Harrison of ScreenRant describes Joker:<br>
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Folie à Deux as a more refined sequel designed to provoke fans of the original <br>
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'Joker: Folie à Deux has more coherent things to say about fan culture than it or its predecessor does about mental illness, which,<br>
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for me, makes it the superior of the two,' he stated.<br>
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Deadline's Pete Hammond praises the film as 'brilliant' and lauds the performances of the leads. <br>
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'Phoenix knows this character inside and out, and in what others might say is a risky proposition, <br>
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he tap dances, sings and sells this role like no other — if not <br>
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topping his Oscar-winning turn in Joker, at least finding a way to take him in different, wholly surprising direction. <br>
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'Gaga is smartly low-key, not the Harley Quinn we associate with Margot Robbie, but <br>
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her own person, dressed down and believably showing affection and connection with Joker and, more important,<br>
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the man behind the makeup.'<br>
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The Hollywood Reporter says Joker: Folie à Deux feels 'narratively a little thin and at times dull… This sequel is built on more of <br>
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a conceit than a solid story foundation.'<br>
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'Even more than its predecessor, Joker: Folie <br>
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à Deux reduces the archvillain to a hollowed-out product of childhood trauma and mental illness.<br>
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Which means there's little we didn't learn last <br>
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time,' added the outlet's David Rooney.<br>
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The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw wrote, 'There's a great supporting cast and a barnstorming first act but Todd Phillips's much-hyped Gotham <br>
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sequel proves claustrophobic and repetitive.'<br>
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DailyMail's Brian Viner called the musical 'audaciously different in style from the original, not quite as electrifying, but <br>
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bold and brilliant all the same'<br>
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Owen Gleiberman appeared a bit less impressed in his <br>
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review for Variety , writing that the 'cracked jukebox musical' had an audacious concept, 'but in a basic way it's an overly cautious sequel' <br>
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Deadline's Pete Hammond praises the film as 'brilliant' and lauds the performances of the leads <br>
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The Times called it a 'messy, lifeless sequel' that 'didn't need <br>
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'The director Todd Phillips said there would be <br>
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no follow-up to the original, but he changed his mind and the result <br>
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is a derivative musical,' the outlet's Kevin Maher <br>
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Allison Willmore at Vulture panned the movie, writing, 'Mostly, Arthur is acted upon, even when he <br>
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thinks he's seizing control — a punching bag for the world and, more importantly, for the director, who subjects the character to <br>
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so many indignities that he actually stops being pitiable <br>
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and starts resembling the punchline to a very long, shaggy joke. <br>
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'By the end of Joker: Folie à Deux, that joke feels like <br>
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it's on us.'<br>
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Joker: Folie à Deux is set to be released in theaters on October 4, 2024. <br>
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It is the much-anticipated follow-up to 2019's Academy Award-winning <br>
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Joker, which earned more than $1 billion at the global box <br>
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office and remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of <br>
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all time.<br>
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The second installment finds Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham <br>
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awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker.<br>
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'While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles <br>
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upon true love, but also finds the music that's always <br>
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been inside him,' a press release shared.<br>
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