by Hannah Strong
Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.
Ridley Scott takes on the might of France’s most famous son in predictably brash and thrilling style.
Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster’s scattered third feature.
by Charles Bramesco
Joaquin Phoenix forms a close bond with a precocious whippersnapper in Mike Mills’ gentle family drama.
by David Jenkins
Todd Phillips’ supervillain origin story strains so hard for seriousness and relevance that it cracks into a million pieces.
Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly saddle up for director Jacques Audiard’s lighthearted western.
Gus Van Sant reunites with Joaquin Phoenix for an oddball comedy-drama about disability and addiction.
by Elena Lazic
Faux feminist biblical revisionism abounds in Garth Davis’ humdrum religious drama.
Joaquin Phoenix and director Lynne Ramsay combine forces to deliver a sensational cinematic sucker punch.
by David Ehrlich
Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone go back to school in this charmingly off-kilter comedy-thriller from Woody Allen.
Paul Thomas Anderson charts the end of the hippy dream in this blissful gumshoe chimera.
Whimsical futuro-romance effortlessly evolves into ambiguous, unfathomable hard sci-fi in Spike Jonze’s best film to date.
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