Todd Phillips' "Joker" movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck is horrifying, it's artful — and it's hardly alone in its cinematic zest for violence.

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Directed by Todd Phillips. With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy. In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker.

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