joker

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She cited the dreadful critical reception for "Joker: Folie a Deux" which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 before bombing at the box office.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Mr. Keoghan, lately seen—barely—as the Joker in “The Batman,” specializes in unhinged characters, but the act isn’t especially convincing this time around.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Classic baddies from Cruella de Vil to the Joker have gotten movies that explore their origin stories and explain their damaged psyches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

The Joker, for example, becomes Yoka, a shaman and right-hand man to emperor Moctezuma who can communicate with the gods.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

The tests were given by a man who looked, to me, like the Joker in the Batman comics.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers