How Joker Became 2019's Most Controversial Movie Before It Even Hit Theaters
their gritty, grounded 1970s-set origin story for the iconic Batman comics villain. And that's because before the film had even begun playing in theaters across the country, it seemed as though everyone already had an opinion on the film, and not all of them kind.
Since the first reviews out of the 76th Venice International Film Festival in August saw critics rather split on whether or not Phillips' had the sort of sensitivity required to approach a story that took the birth of Batman's most enduring adversary and placed it in a ultra-realistic world that seemed to deserve the sort of terror he enacts upon it while the director and his star received an eight-minute standing ovation at its screening, after which it took home the Golden Lion, the...
"Why? Why, would you …? No, no," he reportedly stammered before storming out of the interview in late September.As we approached the October 4 release date, things didn't get much calmer. On September 23, five family members and friends of the 12 people killed in the 2012 movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado carried out by
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