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Joker

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Directed by Todd Phillips

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure. From TMDB

281 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 14, 2026 · last updated Oct 14, 2026 · How this works

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What viewers are saying

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13 positive · 2 mixed · 1 negative

Counted from the reviewers’ own 0–10 ratings on the 16 rated TMDB user reviews we collected (7–10 positive, 5–6 mixed, 0–4 negative), not by the AI.

Viewers praise Joaquin Phoenix's transformative performance as a career-defining highlight. [1][2][3] Some find the film a compelling character study of a broken man pushed to the edge. [4][5][6]

Liked
  • Joaquin Phoenix gives an astonishing, transformative performance. [1][2][3]
  • The film is a gripping character study of mental decline. [4][5][6]
  • The score and cinematography enhance the tragic atmosphere. [7][3]
  • It avoids typical superhero cliches and feels unique. [1][8]
Disliked
  • The narrative feels shallow and substitutes edgy ambiance for substance. [2]
  • Supporting characters are flat and serve only Arthur's story. [4]
  • The Joker here is not the intelligent criminal mastermind of comics. [9]
  • One reviewer found the sob story uninteresting and the film insulting to fans. [9]
Representative posts
  • [9]Dark Jedi @Dark JediTMDB review · Feb 19, 2020 · Rated 3/10

    This is going to be one of those posts where I go against the mainstream but my reaction when I watched this movie was: You got to be f… kidding me? The only resemblance to the REAL joker in this movie is the name. As far as I am concerned this movie is an insult to the fans of Batman and the REAL Joker. The “Joker” in this move is a unintelligent deranged nutcase. There is a sob story in the background about how he …

  • [1]Manuel São Bento @msbreviewsTMDB review · Oct 4, 2019 · Rated 9/10

    If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog :) Obviously, Joker is one of my most anticipated movies of 2019. I mean, how couldn't it be?! Besides belonging to the superhero genre, DC has been on a streak of great films within its universe, so an isolated installment definitely excites me, especially about one of the evilest villains ever. It's by far one of the less comic-book-y flicks of …

  • [3]r96sk @r96skTMDB review · Apr 12, 2021 · Rated 10/10

    Each to their own, as always, but for me: Incredible! I was fully aware of 'Joker' ever since its release, impossible not to be given the extraordinary hype that surrounded it, but it still absolutely surpassed my expectations - a sensational film. I adored every second of this; and I'm not even a Joker/DC Comics etc. 'fan'. Joaquin Phoenix gives an astonishingly outstanding performance as the titular character, …

  • [5]Leno @fLenoTMDB review · Nov 30, 2019 · Rated 9/10

    A Masterpiece. The movie shows the escalating events that made Arthur become the Joker. Initially an inoffensive poor and sick man, Arthur suffered a tide of unfortunate events that pushed him closer and closer to the edge. Ignored and despised by everyone, sick and alone in the world, and neglected by the State, Arthur becomes progressively more violent until he breaks. Much more than one more Super-hero movie, …

  • [4]Sheldon Nylander @dalbozTMDB review · Nov 24, 2019 · Rated 7/10

    Okay, this film has already been so widely debated that I’m not sure what I can really add to the conversation. So, I’ll just give my thoughts. “Joker” is a fairly basic character study of Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill man who feels increasingly marginalized by an uncaring and brutal society in Gotham City. To start, the characters, except for Arthur himself, are pretty flat. They seem to have little purpose other …

How this was made: an AI model (deepseek-v4-flash) read 34 of the 251 public posts we collected about this film and wrote the summary, likes and dislikes, citing the posts behind each point ([n] opens the post). A second AI pass checked every statement against the posts it cites; anything it could not match was removed, and code removed any statement with quotation marks, numbers that are not in the posts, or unattributed claims about people. The split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Generated Oct 10, 2026. Method

Critics, per Wikipedia

Joker grossed $335.5 million in the United States and Canada and $743.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.079 billion. It is the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2019 and the third highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, as well as the first and only R-rated film to pass the billion-dollar mark until Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024. In terms of budget-to-gross ratio, Joker is also the most profitable film based on a comic book, due to its small budget and little decline in week-to-week grosses during its theatrical run, surpassing the record previously held by Deadpool (2016). Deadline Hollywood estimated the film made a net profit of $437 million, when factoring…

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  • AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    Mayor Adams spending millions to transport Luigi Magnione like he's the Joker in a Nolan movie instead of keeping libraries open on Sundays.

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  • Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.comBluesky · Oct 7, 2024

    Not telling Joker fans that the new Joker movie is a musical is genuinely one of the funniest things anyone has ever done

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  • pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2024

    It’s sad that we’ve never had a Joker film that’s accurate to his portrayal in the original source material: a man who gets away after the Batmobile loses a wheel

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · May 4, 2025

    ‘SINNERS’ earns $33M in the film’s 3rd domestic weekend, a small 28% drop. It is also the 2nd biggest 3rd domestic weekend at the box office for a R-rated film, beating ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Joker’ Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF

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  • Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    I've been struggling to find the right comparison for "Emilia Perez" -- "Cats"? "Joker: Folie a Deux"? -- but I think I have it now; the movie that "Emilia Perez" reminds me most of is Sia's "Music"

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  • Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    Basically, the right-wing wants you to think that being racist is the most dangerous (and cool) thing you can do right now. Films like The People's Joker and Nirvanna The Band The Movie prove the most dangerous thing for algorithmic streaming platforms is actually copyright infringement.

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    It will be so funny if Joker 2, a movie about how an icon of a proletarian uprising is actually just a sad, disappointing little freak, totally captured the zeitgeist but was too crappy as a movie for it to matter

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  • Film Updates @filmupdates.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2024

    Lady Gaga stuns at the Venice Film Festival premiere of ‘JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX’

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2024

    Saw some people upset that the new Joker movie is a musical and it’s like yeah I get it, they made a movie about a clown who does crimes and turned it into something silly

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Mar 17, 2025

    Village Roadshow has filed for bankruptcy after fallout from a financial dispute with Warner Bros over ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ They were the production company behind ‘The Matrix, ‘Joker’, ‘The LEGO Movie’, ‘Zoolander’, ‘I Am Legend’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Happy Feet’

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    Man they really gave up on that Joker 2 movie, it’s like they ran out of ideas instead of exploring the endless ideas that would ordinarily come from a clown that does crime

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  • Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    Now Watching: The People’s Joker by the absurdly talented @veradrew22.bsky.social.

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  • BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    trump’s America is the villain in a dystopian blockbuster! From stormtrooper ICE raids to Joker-style tariffs, my Substack exposes how 2025 policies mirror movie bad guys. Check out my FREE script here: brooklyndaddefiant.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

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  • punkitt ‼️🧣 @punkitt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2025

    wednesday movie night. its time to watch The People's Joker

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  • Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2024

    The first Joker movie whipped up terror that it would inspire incel mass violence. Will Joker 2 (musical) whip up terror that it’s going to inspire incels getting into the razzle dazzle of broadway

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  • Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2024

    I think the first Joker movie should've been called I AM CLOWN and the second movie should've been called WE ARE CLOWN.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jan 6, 2026

    Barry Keoghan is expected to return as The Joker in ‘THE BATMAN: PART 2’ (Source: variety.com/2026/film/ne...)

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2024

    Whenever I post images of Aleksandra Khokhlova, people compare her to Conrad Veidt in THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) But she was a child performer who made her film debut in 1916. So, Conrad Veidt looks like her, not the other way around. And since TMWL was inspo for the Joker... THE JOKER IS A WOMAN

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2025

    I’m not into that mid Marvel bullshit so I’m glad when a movie like Musical Joker or Psychic Spiderman mom or Stupid Vampire comes out

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  • Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2024

    Thinking back to the heady days of 2019 when people were like "JOKER will change cinema" and "Society is not prepared for JOKER," and the movie had nothing to say about anything.

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  • ass juice connoisseur ΘΔ @bigsistemmutt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2025

    everyone appreciates him being the "first darker film take on Joker", but nobody appreciates that he pulled that off while STILL being a good clown and not just an edgelord

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  • G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.meBluesky · Oct 22, 2024

    Every time a Joker movie comes out, we get a plague

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  • Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    The new Joker film looks absolutely terrifying.

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  • Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2024

    Spent so much of the panny absolutely horrified at the prospect of the last movie I ever saw in a theater being Joker

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  • LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    When Todd Phillips said that Joker was a film about “mental illness” what he meant was he saw Falling Down and was like what if Falling Clown

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2026

    Remember when they made a JOKER movie and Entertainment Weekly refused to assign a letter grade to it because they thought the film was too dangerous and irresponsible

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  • Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    He is a scumbag who looks like he plays a nepo Joker in a Batman movie

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  • Jeremy @floregonian.comBluesky · Sep 21, 2024

    Quick confession: I never saw the Joker movie and I honestly don’t think I ever will. Why do they keep making Joker movies?

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  • Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    Batman 89 Joker by Flore Maquin. #comics #art #film

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  • haha yeah @freshfleisch.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2025

    remember how “The People’s Joker” is such a good movie? damn, what a film. what an absolute cinema.

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  • 🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    Booooooring. Make another movie with a Joker in it

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2024

    The Joker went Woke The movie went Broke The Batmobile Lost a Wheel and the Joker got away (to be woke) - Albert Camus, 1948

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  • Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.onlineBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    The People's Joker / Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie "laws are fake make your art" double feature

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  • Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    In the next Batman movie, The Joker is created after being pushed into The Reflecting Pool by the National Guard

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Oct 29, 2024

    Quentin Tarantino says he loved #Joker2 "Todd Phillips is the Joker. The Joker directed the movie. He spent the studio's money like the Joker would spend it ... He’s saying fuck you to the movie audience [and] to Hollywood. He’s saying fuck you to anybody who owns any stock at DC and WB"

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  • Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2024

    A Joker movie that everyone hates is the most Joker move of all, really

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  • Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tvBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    I had issues with how the first joker movie portrayed mental health and this film starting by suggesting that the Joker is actually because of dissociative identity disorder gives me very little confidence in this movie treating this stuff any better

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  • little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did Joker movie in 2019.

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  • Niko @nikoanesti.newgrounds.comBluesky · Oct 7, 2024

    I heard Joker 2 is actually just a reskin of a Japanese movie called Jokey Jokey Panic

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  • Boo!bo @boboispost.ingBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    The Minecraft movie is everything people thought the Joker movie was gonna be

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  • 🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    Everyone focuses on Joker quotes but the real movie quote guys love Bane quotes

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  • 👻 Spooky Cat War 👻 @eternalcatwar.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    you have created the Film Joker

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  • JCP⭐Designs 👺 A Professional Who Gives A Shit @jcpxdesigns.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    Batman: The Video Game, developed and published by Sunsoft is the next game in my NES Collection series! This is the NES tie-in game to the 1989 Tim Burton film. Beat up thugs, wall-jump through perilous levels on your way to stop the Joker, who can summon lightning at will somehow.

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  • Real Phil Braun @philbraun.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    Disturbing still from a rumored “snuff film” that depicted the penguin & Joker from the 60’s

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  • Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tvBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    Wow that prisoner in the hallway at the end had a lot of charisma and a fun performance. He could’ve played the Joker if they ever made a Joker movie

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  • IGN @ign.comBluesky · Nov 7, 2024

    Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav acknowledged that the company's film business has been hit-or-miss lately, with Joker: Folie à Deux in particular being "disappointing". bit.ly/3OiUQxT

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  • Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phdBluesky · Jul 11, 2024

    'The Joker' (2019) was a derivative, tiresome film but I respect it for giving us the perfect reaction to so much of the modern age 📽️

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  • Interesting MTG Art (scary version 💀) @interestingmtg.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2025

    Finally watched The People's Joker. The movie is incredible, has one of the most unhinged DVD menus I've ever seen, and contains the best version of the Penguin put to film. Beautiful, heart-wrenching, hilarious, mad

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  • Inspector Ratchet @1nspectratchet.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2024

    How come Joker gets another movie I've been a clown my entire life

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2025

    I'm playing the Joker in the next Matt Reeves BATMAN movie

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2024

    Remember the “people are going to do terrorism because of the Joker movie” news cycle, our moral panics are so unserious

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Now that I’ve seen The King of Comedy (1982) for the first time, I realize that Taxi Driver wasn’t the only Scorsese film that served as inspiration for Joker (2019). Far from it. 🤭 Joker feels like a reboot of that brilliant film that was ahead of its time—now one of my favorite Scorsese movies. 👍

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  • I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.appBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    This is the plot to the Batman movie with Heath Ledger’s Joker.

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  • Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    OKLAHOMO CITY THE PEOPLES JOKER ON NOVEMBER 14TH DONT MISS IT www.oklahomafilmexchange.com/events/the-p...

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  • Semper Veritas @semper-veritas1.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    Remember the Batman movie when the Joker fell in the acid

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  • Spooky Stephie Skeletons 🏳️‍⚧️ @stephiesparda.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    When Todd Phillips said that Joker was a film about "mental illness", what he actually meant was that it's a film about a bad and entitled person looking for a reason to hurt other people.

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  • Samzilla Gaychild @samfloyd1987.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    The People's Joker is actually a good independent film. 🏳️‍⚧️

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    Okay, if they ever let me make a Batman movie, I'm casting Paul Kaye as The Joker

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  • Joe Richards -> bed @joerichardswrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2026

    Finally got around to watching Joker 2 damn that film was really not good at all

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  • Semper Veritas @semper-veritas1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    Remember the Batman movie when the Joker fell in the acid?

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