Talent Joaquin Phoenix

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Joker: Folie à Deux review – a grim karaoke session

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.

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Napoleon review – a dirty, bloody epic

Ridley Scott takes on the might of France's most famous son in predictably brash and thrilling style.

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Beau is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster's scattered third feature.

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C’mon C’mon

Joaquin Phoenix forms a close bond with a precocious whippersnapper in Mike Mills’ gentle family drama.

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Joker

Todd Phillips’ supervillain origin story strains so hard for seriousness and relevance that it cracks into a million pieces.

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The Sisters Brothers

Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly saddle up for director Jacques Audiard’s lighthearted western.

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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

Gus Van Sant reunites with Joaquin Phoenix for an oddball comedy-drama about disability and addiction.

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Mary Magdalene

Faux feminist biblical revisionism abounds in Garth Davis’ humdrum religious drama.

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You Were Never Really Here

Joaquin Phoenix and director Lynne Ramsay combine forces to deliver a sensational cinematic sucker punch.

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Irrational Man

Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone go back to school in this charmingly off-kilter comedy-thriller from Woody Allen.

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Inherent Vice

Paul Thomas Anderson charts the end of the hippy dream in this blissful gumshoe chimera.

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Her

Whimsical futuro-romance effortlessly evolves into ambiguous, unfathomable hard sci-fi in Spike Jonze’s best film to date.

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