Joker

This joke isn't funny anymore (and wasn't to begin with)

"...Directed by: Todd Phillips. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Shea..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

I'm Still Here

Is Joaquin Phoenix having a meltdown, or is he putting us on? Only his brother-in-the-law, the film's director, knows for sure.

"...his directing debut, actor Affleck films his Oscar-winning brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix during the period of time Phoenix announced his..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.

"...Directed by: James Mangold. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick, Shelby Lynne, Ginnifer Goodwin,..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beau Is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in this bloated Oedipal epic

"...Directed by: Ari Aster. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Armen Nahapetian, Julia Antonelli, Zoe Lister-Jones,..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

C'mon C'mon

Joaquin Phoenix's avuncular turn avoids cloying family clichés

"...Directed by: Mike Mills. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Woody Norman, Gaby Hoffmann, Scoot McNairy, Elaine Kagan..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Irrational Man

Joaquin Phoenix plots the perfect crime in Woody Allen's new charmer

"...Directed by: Woody Allen. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley, Betsy Aidem..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Her

In the near future, Theodore upgrades his operating system and subsequently falls in love; Spike Jonze conceives the romance, Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlet Johansson sell it.

"...Directed by: Spike Jonze. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Chris..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Joaquin Phoenix creates a charming warts-and-all portrait of cartoonist John Callahan

"...Directed by: Gus Van Sant. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Carrie Brownstein,..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Own the Night

Joaquin Phoenix is dynamic, Mark Wahlberg subdued, and Robert Duvall trusty in this otherwise redundant story about brothers on opposite sides of the law.

"...Directed by: James Gray. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes, Antoni Corone,..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Clay Pigeons

"...Directed by: David Dobkin. Starring: Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Joaquin Phoenix and Georgina Cates. In a perfect world, Janeane..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Master

Philip S. Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix act out the internal (and eternal) war between the analytical and implusive that is the principal inquiry of P.T. Anderson's film.

"...Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Jesse..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Two Lovers

Joaquin Phoenix (in what he claims is his last film role) stars as a nebbishy New Yorker caught between two very different women.

"...Directed by: James Gray. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini, Moni Moshonov,..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reservation Road

Crime and Punishment comes to New England in this story about the aftermath of a child's death.

"...Directed by: Terry George. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, Mira Sorvino, Elle Fanning,..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Gladiator

These Coliseum slavery capers earned a Best Picture Oscar.

"...Directed by: Ridley Scott. Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi,..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sisters Brothers

A murderers’ row of great actors in this contract killer Western comedy

"...Directed by: Jacques Audiard. Starring: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rutger Hauer, Rebecca Root..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

You Were Never Really Here

Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger's tragedy.

"...Directed by: Lynne Ramsay. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Ekaterina Samsonov, John Doman, Alex Manette,..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Immigrant

Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix star in James Gray's latest New York opus, a story about a woman turned out from Ellis Island to fend for herself on the mean streets of New York.

"...Directed by: James Gray. Starring: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jicky Schnee, Elena Solovey,..."

May 30, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ladder 49

No scorcher this, but nonetheless a sturdy tribute to firefighters and male camaraderie.

"...Directed by: Jay Russell. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Yards

"...Directed by: James Gray. Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan, Ellen Burstyn, Faye Dunaway..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Return to Paradise

"...Directed by: Joseph Ruben. Starring: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Jada Pinkett, Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inherent Vice

Highbrow mixes with lowbrow in Paul Thomas Anderson's screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.

"...Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Katherine Waterston, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon,..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Buffalo Soldiers

On an American military outpost in Europe during the Eighties, the black market economy runs the show.

"...Directed by: Gregor Jordan. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Anna Paquin, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Pena,..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival Review: C’mon C’mon

Joaquin Phoenix's avuncular turn avoids cloying family clichés

"...preoccupied with: the heartwarming story about middle-aged bachelor Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) who is entrusted with watching his nephew Jesse..."

Oct. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Austin Film Festival Unleashes The Same Storm

The French Dispatch, C’Mon C'Mon headed to fest

"...French Dispatch and the critically lauded C'Mon C'Mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix. But first, the fest (running (Oct. 21-28) must..."

Sept. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Napoleon

Ridley Scott's superficial biopic is all strategy, no tactics

"...Directed by: Ridley Scott. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Edouard Philipponnat, Ian McNeice and Rupert..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...D: David Dobkin; with Joaquin Phoenix, Georgina Cates, Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Scott Wilson...."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Signs

"...Night Shyamalan. Starring: Cherry Jones, Abigail Breslin, Rory Culkin, Joaquin Phoenix and Mel Gibson. Shyamalan, the writer/director (and sometime..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Yards

The Yards works well as an homage to Mean Streets-era Seventies crime movies, but the film's maddening problems with pace and dialogue make it a less enjoyable viewing experience than it could be.

"...D: James Gray (2000); with Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan, Ellen Burstyn, Faye Dunaway...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Screens Review

Don't Worry, Gus Van Sant Won't Get Far on Foot

Oscar-nominated director talks his new cartooning biopic

"...the eighth anniversary of the quadriplegic cartoonist's death. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Callahan, and based on Callahan's autobiography, it..."

July 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gladiator

Gladiator: the most overhyped epic of the year.

"...Gladiator D: Ridley Scott (2000); with Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Connie Nielsen...."

Dec. 8, 2000 Screens Review by Mike Emery

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