Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: This is an absolute abomination, perhaps the worst film of the year. At minimum, Joker: Folie a Deux is a film that delights in hating its audience.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Although Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga made for a fantastic on-screen pairing, almost anything else around them doesn’t always come together perfectly or close to the shades of brilliance we’ve gotten before.
- [New] | Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: El engaño no dura mucho pero si usted, querida lectora, no lo sabía, es bueno prevenirla: la secuela de aquella película de hace cinco años dedicada al Guasón, el villano más icónico de Batman, es un musical.
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: A disarming and disquieting film that wrestles ethics and morality into a Gordian Knot.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: while [Phillips’] core idea of turning his anti-hero into a martyr for the masses is intriguing, turning it into a musical, presumably the better to utilize Lady Gaga, bogs everything down.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: All these efforts to be unconventional and further push the boundaries of comic book movies produce a haphazard and repetitive picture with too many musical interludes and the most unexciting approach to two of comic’s most fascinating personalities.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Scenes go nowhere. The musical numbers are stripped of life and delivered in the spoken dialogue of a musical whisper. There is no resolution, no substance, just a torturous trudge through misery.
- Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: Joker: Folie à Deux is a $200 million mistake! A nonsensical mess of a film that should have been shelved indefinitely. Great costume design though.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: This sequel is drafting off the first and comes up empty quickly. Despite all the flashy new additions (Lady Gaga, musical numbers, etc.), this is just one sad clown show.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: More interesting as a concept than in execution, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is a bizarre, off-putting sequel that seems to reject everything that the first film stood for. The pairing of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga proves less thrilling than expected – though both are solid – and the jukebox musical aspect doesn’t work at all.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Excerpt: There is nothing uplifting about Joker: Folie à Deux; there is only pain and distress, drowning in misery and a lack of any kind of compassion.
- Diego Salgado @ Sofilm [Spanish]
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: The singing didn’t bother me, and one or two narrative twists left me mildly shocked. But nothing in this film manages to top what was done in the first instalment, instead making the events of that film feel sadly irrelevant.
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