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Joaquin Phoenix

Film Review: “Joker” — Here Come the Killer Clowns

Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker

Film Review: “You Were Never Really Here” — Lynne Ramsay’s Dark Materials

In You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay’s themes of alienation, violence, guilt and redemption are once again present, albeit in a more frenetic form than before.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ekaterina Samsonov, Joaquin Phoenix, Lynne Ramsay, Peg Aloi, You Were Never Really Here

Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” — Some Existential Pleasures

This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Emma Stone, Irrational Man, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Rhode Island, woody-Allen

Film Review: “Inherent Vice” — Like an Acid Trip, Secondhand

Inherent Vice is a giddy, trippy potpourri that tries to make a virtue of never quite settling on what kind of story it wants to tell.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Film Noir, Inherent Vice, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Hanson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon

Film Review: Spike Jonze’s “Her” — Is This Love Affair Creepy? Or Probing?

Is “Her” exploring truths about romance and emotional need? Or is this a creepy look into how far we’ve surrendered to the infantilizing embrace of technology?

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Her, Joaquin Phoenix, scarlett-johansson, Spike Jonze

Fuse Movie Review: “The Master” – There Will Be Oscars

“The Master” is not easily pigeon-holed as a film but one can argue that it is, at its core, a brilliant anti-war movie.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Joaquin Phoenix, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

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