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Every era gets the Joker it deserves

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James Robins
Oct 14, 2024
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NOT LONG INTO Joker: Folie à Deux – things are already going downhill and I’m honking mournfully in the pews – our sap of a hero meets his amour. He’s a manic headcase called Arthur Fleck, manacled in an asylum for sextuple murder; she’s called Lee and has a bad case of regrowth. “You know,” she says, “I must’ve watched that TV movie they made about you…

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