Best and Worst Reviews After Premiering at the Venice Film Festival

Critics are divided after Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga Joker: Folie vs Deux premiered Venice International Film Festival Wednesday.

Phoenix, Gaga, and director Todd Phillips attended the film’s red carpet world premiere in Venice. Joker: Folie vs Deux is being screened in competition. It is a sequel to 2019 Joker—Winning Phoenix the Oscar for Best Actor—Joker: Folie vs Deux is a crime drama like its predecessor, but it’s also a jukebox that stars Gaga’s Harley Quinn.

Although the film won’t be released in North American theaters until October 4, reviews have started pouring in from Venice to the critics’ site Rotten TomatoesAs of the date of publication, Joker: Folie vs Deux One RT 60% “fresh” rating based on 43 reviews.

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Among the most positive comments best critics RTJohn Nugent Empire Magazine “The sweetest and most captivating musical romance between two murderous psychopaths. Its campy approach won’t appeal to every comic book fan, but it finds its own strange, tragic hope.”

David Rooney Hollywood Reporter also praises Joker writes of the sequel: “Gaga is an engaging, vibrant presence who bridges the gap between intimacy and obsession while also giving Arthur a likable chance… Both her duet and solo scores have a vitality that the bleaker films desperately need.”

Deadline Pete Hammond also noted the film’s showbiz sensibility, writing: “With song, dance, comedy, darkness, animation, drama, violence and more, this is a musical, if it is a musical at all, like no other.”

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For summary Joker continues as follows: “Joker: Folie vs Deux “He finds Arthur Fleck in an institution in Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as the Joker. As Arthur struggles with his dual identity, he not only finds true love, but also the music that was always inside him.”

But there is music in the movie, but not all of it. RTs The best critics are unanimous in their “praise”Joker: Folie Versus Deux.”

Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson wrote of the film: “It is a surprisingly dull, meaningless procedural that disdains its audience.” BBC’s “Depending on how you look at it, this attempt at demythologizing is either audacious or irritatingly self-indulgent, but it’s certainly not very funny,” says Nicholas Barber.

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Among the worst reviews of the film Where does it come from? IndependentTel critic David Ehrlich, the title of which is as follows: “Joker: Folie vs Deux Review: Todd Phillips’ Musical Sequel Feels Intentionally Bad.”

“Boring, bland, and such a criminal waste of Lady Gaga that we must demand a public hearing,” Ehrlich writes in the subheading of his review. Folio of Deux “He’s trying to make our own frustrations about this a point, and he’s failing.”

Of course, viewers will have the chance to form their own opinions. Joker: Folie vs Deux It hits theaters on October 4th.

The Venice International Film Festival, which started on August 27 World premiere Beetle juice Beetle juice—It will continue until Saturday.

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