Joker (2019)

Joker rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.3/10· 1.7M votes

Rotten Tomatoes68%

Metacritic59%

TMDb8.125/10· 28K votes

With 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.3/10 on IMDb and 59/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Cast of Joker

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  Joaquin Phoenix

  as Arthur Fleck

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  Robert De Niro

  as Murray Franklin

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  Zazie Beetz

  as Sophie Dumond

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  Frances Conroy

  as Penny Fleck

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  Brett Cullen

  as Thomas Wayne

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  Shea Whigham

  as Detective Burke

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  Bill Camp

  as Detective Garrity

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  Glenn Fleshler

  as Randall

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  Leigh Gill

  as Gary

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  Josh Pais

  as Hoyt Vaughn

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  Rocco Luna

  as GiGi Dumond

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  Marc Maron

  as Gene Ufland

Joker facts

Budget

$55M

Box office

$1.1B

Collection

Joker Collection

Our take on Joker

Todd Phillips sets this crime drama-thriller in 1980s Gotham City, following a failed stand-up comedian who is pushed past his breaking point and slides into a life of crime and chaos, hardening into an infamous, psychopathic figure. The film stays close to one man's unraveling, using mood, period texture and a single wounded performance to track how isolation and humiliation curdle into violence. It's a character study more than a genre spectacle, deliberately uneasy and slow to give the audience anyone to root for. Expect a bleak, uncomfortable tone rather than escapism. It suits viewers drawn to psychological portraits of breakdown and don't need a hero at the center.