Quentin Tarantino could now not be making The Film Critic as his tenth and closing movie, however the Hollywood auteur grew to become one when he gave two thumbs as much as Todd Phillips’ antihero musical Joker: Folie à Deux throughout a podcast look.

“I actually, actually preferred it, actually. Rather a lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it anticipating to be impressed by the filmmaking. However I assumed it was going to be an arms-length, mental train that in the end I wouldn’t suppose labored like a film, however that I’d recognize it for what it’s,” Tarantino advised The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast on Tuesday.

By no means thoughts the Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga-starrer acquired a D Cinemascore on its launch in early October, after which bombed on the field workplace to arrange steep losses for Warner Bros. Tarantino begs to vary together with his fellow film critics, it seems.

“And I’m simply nihilistic sufficient to form of get pleasure from a film that doesn’t fairly work as a film. That’s like a giant, large mess to a point. And I didn’t discover it an mental train. I actually acquired caught up into it. I actually preferred the musical sequences. I acquired actually caught up. I assumed the extra banal the songs have been, the higher they have been,” he argued when speaking a few current screening on the multiplex for the Joker sequel.

Tarantino was particularly impressed by director Phillips as a Hollywood rebel. “He’s saying f— you to all of them. He’s saying f— you to the film viewers. He’s saying f— you to Hollywood. He’s saying f— you to anyone who owns any inventory at DC and Warner Brothers […] And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un movie de Joker, all proper, is what it’s. He’s the Joker,” he advised the podcast.

Tarantino’s grade for Joker: Folie à Deux runs counter to the poor phrase of mouth the Hollywood tentpole generated earlier than its current field workplace launch. That’s after Phillips’ polarizing, R-rated sequel had its world premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant.