'Joker' review: Joaquin Phoenix creates an interior world of pain. His movie is a pain, period.
Awards bait to some, moral pariah to others, the Joaquin Phoenix take on Batman's once and future nemesis takes place in a mid-1970s/early '80s urban nightmare according to "Death Wish," "Taxi Driver" and "The King of Comedy." But what is director Todd Phillips actually saying about anything with this dubiously sympathetic depiction?