Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix stars in the title role of Todd Phillips’ ” Joker,” alongside Oscar winner Robert De Niro and Zazie Beetz. Golden Lion winner for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, the film is being heralded by critics as “gloriously daring.” Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck — indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix — as a man struggling in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night… But he finds the joke always seems to be on him. Arthur makes one bad decision that brings on a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
