Joaquin Phoenix

Joker: Folie à Deux review – a grim karaoke session

By Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.

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Joker: Folie à Deux – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.

Napoleon review – a dirty, bloody epic

By Hannah Strong

Ridley Scott takes on the might of France's most famous son in predictably brash and thrilling style.

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Beau is Afraid

By Hannah Strong

Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster's scattered third feature.

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The romantic listlessness of Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master

By Jeremy Arblaster

As this Thomas Pynchon-inspired drama turns 10, its portrayal of post-war malaise still has an undeniable allure.

Mike Mills: ‘All my films are me communing with someone I really love’

By Hannah Strong

The director explains how fatherhood shaped his latest film, and how creating space is integral to his creative vision.

C’mon C’mon

By Charles Bramesco

Joaquin Phoenix forms a close bond with a precocious whippersnapper in Mike Mills’ gentle family drama.

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C’mon C’mon – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Joaquin Phoenix and newcomer Woody Norman play uncle and nephew in Mike Mills’ tender drama about a family in flux.

Joaquin Phoenix reads a bedtime story in the first trailer for C’mon C’mon

By Charles Bramesco

He looks after his precocious young nephew in writer/director Mike Mills’ tender family drama.

Ridley Scott eyes Jodie Comer for the female lead in his Napoleon epic

By Charles Bramesco

She’s set to star as Josephine, paramour to the infamous, diminutive world-conqueror.

Ari Aster’s next film has found its lead in Joaquin Phoenix

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll play “one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time” in Disappointment Blvd, for A24.

Joker

By David Jenkins

Todd Phillips’ supervillain origin story strains so hard for seriousness and relevance that it cracks into a million pieces.

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Joker – first look review

By David Jenkins

Todd Phillips’ wannabe edgy comic book origin story falls flat on every conceivable level.

Joker and Ford v Ferrari headline the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

Todd Philips, James Mangold, Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson and more are set to unveil new films this autumn.

Joaquin Phoenix puts on a happy face in the Joker trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Director Todd Phillips gives the clown prince of crime a tragic slant.

Have film audiences fallen out of love with the western?

By Christina Newland

The poor box office performance of The Sisters Brothers and films like it suggests interest in this quintessential American film genre is on the wane.

The Sisters Brothers

By Hannah Strong

Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly saddle up for director Jacques Audiard’s lighthearted western.

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