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TIFF 2019 Movie Review: Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is the Anti-Hero We Never Needed
Andrea Thompson September 13, 2019

After Joker, is there any way Joaquin Phoenix could shock more with a performance? Probably only by playing a healthy, well-adjusted person. To say he has made a career out of playing darker, complica…

Andrea Thompson September 13, 2019
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Joaquin Phoenix Impresses in Joker’s First Teaser Trailer
Mark Wesley April 3, 2019

The world had its first look at Todd Phillips’ new Joker film less than a year ago and fans were immediately bewildered, terrified and intrigued by it. There wasn’t much to nibble on back …

Mark Wesley April 3, 2019
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The Sisters Brothers Movie Review: An uneven but often engaging take on deconstructing the Western
Gary Shannon September 28, 2018

In the same scheme in which Jacques Audiard’s Palm d’Or-winning migrant drama Dheepan metamorphizes into a hazy and violent stupor in it’s the final moments, his first foray into the western genre doe…

Gary Shannon September 28, 2018
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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Review: A Mediocre Work of Astounding Ableism
Kristen Lopez July 17, 2018

There comes a point during director Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot where main character John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) attends an AA meeting and brings up his …

Kristen Lopez July 17, 2018
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You Were Never Really Here Movie Review: Lynne Ramsay and Joaquin Phoenix make for a perfect pair
Katey Stoetzel April 6, 2018

You Were Never Really Here , a slow burning, psychological thriller, delivers a brutal look into the life of a tormented hired gun named Joe (Joaquin Phoenix). Director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk A…

Katey Stoetzel April 6, 2018
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Sundance 2018 Review: You Were Never Really Here
Katey Stoetzel January 20, 2018

As a slow burn psychological thriller, You Were Never Really Here delivers a brutal look into the life of a tormented hired gun named Joe (Joaquin Phoenix). Director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk Abou…

Katey Stoetzel January 20, 2018
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Movie Review: ‘Irrational Man’
Josh Cabrita July 16, 2015

An oncoming train will kill five people; if you switch the track, only one person will die.  As the engineer of the train, what should you do?  You could appeal to utilitarian ethics, but what if the …

Josh Cabrita July 16, 2015

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