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No shaggy dog story: Although the upcoming Joker movie would possibly per chance well no longer hit theaters except October, some lucky viewers receive already seen it. The movie was shown for the length of the Venice Film Competition on Saturday, and early reactions for the time being are out.

Joaquin Phoenix performs the personality, most effective is incessantly called a legendary Batman villain, in an R-rated make a selection on how a failed slapstick comic morphed into the Clown Prince of Crime. And now that the movie’s being seen, Phoenix is being mentioned as a probably Academy Award winner.

This is what early viewers are announcing.

‘The movie the Joker would want’

“It be going to flip the enviornment upside down and kind us all hysterical within the system. For higher or worse, it be precisely the movie the Joker would want.”  —David Ehrlich, IndieWire

‘Dusky, sick, zigzag’

“Crowd at #Venezia76 went fully ballistic for #JOKER. Film is sad, sick, zigzag. I am with a crowd of fellow critics lawful now, operating thru the streets of Venice appropriate screaming. Hollering. My legs are tired. We now had been doing this for hours. Joaquin is an Oscar contender.”  –Ben Mekler

Is the enviornment ready?

“There shall be earlier than Joker. And there shall be after Joker. Nothing would possibly per chance well be the identical after, we are going to be residing in a total new world. That’s no longer even hyperbole, appropriate the reality. I build no longer know if the enviornment is ready for this movie. Or per chance it is? We are going to discover soon ample. There’ll not be any longer any stopping it now. I’m in a position to’t imagine it exists. But it does, and it be coming.”  —Alex Billington, FirstShowing.catch

Phoenix is ‘so damn lawful’

“Joker is a dauntless, bodacious admire letter to Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, told thru the lens of DC‘s most iconic villain. Dusky, stressful, brutal and sad, it be about an abused man who would no longer initiate up residing except he is lifeless interior. Joaquin Phoenix is so damn lawful.”  —Erik Davis, Fandango

Prepare to debate it for years

“Featuring a riveting, fully realized and Oscar-great performance by Joaquin Phoenix, Joker would work appropriate as correctly as an intelligent personality search for without any of its DC Comics trappings; that it appropriate so occurs to be a knowing Batman-universe movie is icing on the Batfan cake. You will likely leave Joker feeling admire I did: unsettled and keen to debate the movie for years yet to plot.”  —Jim Vejvoda, IGN

Joker opens worldwide on Oct. 4