Failed comedian Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) encounters violent thugs while wandering the streets of Gotham City dressed as a clown. Disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as Joker in director Todd Phillips' thrilling origin story.
"A dazzlingly disturbed psycho morality play, one that speaks to the age of incels and mass shooters and no-hope politics, of the kind of hate that emerges from crushed dreams."--Variety.
"...Phoenix is the prime force that makes Joker such a distinctively edgy entry in the Hollywood comics industrial complex."--Hollywood Reporter.
"... a dark, brooding and psychologically plausible origin story, a vision of cartoon sociopathy made flesh."--Los Angeles Times.