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Joker: Folie à Deux has flopped, and then some

It would be nigh-on impossible to compete with the original

There is a refreshing new emphasis in his films on black comedy and absurdism

He is the most eccentric and in-demand leading man of his time

It’s almost as though Hollywood itself has had enough of the protests, the lectures and the scolding

What Todd Phillips’s film tells us about protest movements