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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
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Washington Post:
Movie seems to be less comic book and more early Scorsese
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...arly-scorsese/
Phillips and Phoenix are delivering a true character study — a stand-alone comic-book movie that looks more like a gritty Martin Scorsese portrait of a cackling outcast as he begins to crack up on the city’s mean streets.
This seems to be the stuff of pre-“Casino” Robert De Niro, who fittingly happens to co-star in “Joker.”
This is the textured take of a searching loser coming apart on the urban fringes — a wannabe stand-up celebrity who seems to share cinematic DNA with two iconic Scorsese/De Niro creations: Travis Bickle (“Taxi Driver”) and Rupert Pupkin (“The King of Comedy”).