‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ debuts to standing ovation at Venice Film Fest, but uneven reviewsMyClallamCounty.com

Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga‘s new film, Joker: Folie à Deux, earned numerous “Applause” on the Venice Movie Pageant on Sept. 4, however the evaluations are one other story.

Selection stories that after the film’s world premiere, the viewers gave director Todd Phillips‘ sequel, starring Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker and Gaga as Harley Quinn, an 11-minute standing ovation. However over at RottenTomatoes.com, about half the evaluations are “rotten.”

The Hollywood Reporter‘s critic David Rooney referred to as Gaga a “compelling live-wire presence,” however complained that the general film is “usually dour.”

He provides, “Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver within the first Joker had the sturdy bones of not one however two Martin Scorsese movies, Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, on which to hold their story and set their tone,” however the sequel, “is constructed on extra of a conceit than a stable story basis.”

Vainness Truthful‘s reviewer Richard Lawson described the film as “startlingly uninteresting” and “a pointless procedural that appears to disdain its viewers,” whereas the BBC’s Nicholas Barber referred to as it a “dreary, underwhelming, pointless slog,” however famous that it was a “welcome alternative to listen to Gaga belting out a number of the most romantic requirements within the American Songbook.”

Nonetheless, The Wrap‘s William Bibbiani referred to as it “impressively odd,” and though he dinged the movie — “even the title screams ‘movie scholar making an attempt too onerous’” — the critic hailed the performances of Phoenix and Gaga, concluding of the sequel, “It’s genuinely a bit of daring, genuinely a bit of difficult, and genuinely a bit of real.”

Empire journal’s John Nugent referred to as the movie “a genuinely unique narrative.” Deadline‘s Pete Hammond praised it as a “sensible musical return to a world of insanity,” including, “With tune, dance, comedy, darkness, animation, drama, violence and extra, this can be a musical — if it even is a musical — like no different.”

We’ll see which camp the viewers agrees with when Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on Oct. 4.

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