Movie Review: 'Folie à Deux' reckons with 'The Joker'

Todd Phillips has followed his very anti-hero take on the Joker with a very anti-sequel follow-up. “Joker: Folie à Deux" combines prison drama, courthouse thriller and musical, and yet turns out remarkably inert given how combustible the original was, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review. If ”Joker" stirred debate, “Folie à Deux” is self-conscious rejoinder to all that discussion, spending much of its time interrogating Arthur Fleck’s actions from the last movie. You can put a happy face on it. Joaquin Phoenix is still arresting in the role, and Lady Gaga is terrific. But “Folie à Deux” spins its wheels.