Rotten Tomatoes Score For Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Joker Drops After New Negative Reviews

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The Rotten Tomatoes score for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker dropped slightly following the addition of new negative reviews.

Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker debuted at the Venice Film Festival to rave reviews and later earned the event’s prestigious Golden Lion award for Best Film. Not long after, Joker screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and has since emerged as an early awards season contender, especially for Joaquin Phoenix’s praised performance as the Clown Prince of Crime.

However, not everyone has been impressed by Joker and the Rotten Tomatoes score for the Joaquin Phoenix film dropped from the initial 85% rating to 77% after roughly a dozen negative reviews were added to the review aggregation website. Though some have labeled Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker as an Oscar-worthy game-changer for comic book adaptations, others aren’t convinced the film is as laudable as the early review claimed, with one critic for US Weekly writing, “This predictable brand of cold-hearted cynicism is not worth your time. Seriously.”

Here is the official synopsis for Joker:

Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fracturedsociety. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham.

Joker will be released in theaters on October 4, 2019.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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