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  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 32 m
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  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary A painfully unfunny aspiring clown (Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin) grapples with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join the ranks of Gotham City’s sole comedy program in a world where comedy has been outlawed. Uniting with a ragtag team of rejects and misfits, Joker the Harlequin forms an illegal anti-comedy troup...

Written By: Bri LeRose

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Not Rated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2024
  • Not Rated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 32 m

The People's Joker

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
76
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 41 User Ratings
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Summary A painfully unfunny aspiring clown (Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin) grapples with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join the ranks of Gotham City’s sole comedy program in a world where comedy has been outlawed. Uniting with a ragtag team of rejects and misfits, Joker the Harlequin forms an illegal anti-comedy troup...

Written By: Bri LeRose

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
17 Reviews
11% Mixed
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89
Apr 5, 2024
It’s filtering Vera Drew’s autobiographical story through the lens of contemporary popular culture, transforming her own life into myth while transforming corporatized IP into punk rock anarchy.
By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW
85
Apr 2, 2024
Vera Drew is both the unstoppable force and the immovable object, and we should all be so lucky to bear witness to her madness. The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules, and The People's Joker refuses to follow any of them.
By BJ Colangelo FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 41 User Ratings
3.8
29% Positive
12 Ratings
15% Mixed
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56% Negative
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable Based on 41 User Ratings
3.8
29% Positive
12 Ratings
15% Mixed
6 Ratings
56% Negative
23 Ratings

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83
Sep 21, 2022
Coming out as a bold filmmaker with a fearless voice, prolific alt comedy editor Vera Drew’s mixed media dystopia is an experimental trans coming of age story wrapped in a scathing critique and confident rebuke of mainstream comedy. Fiercely original and deeply personal, it’s too damn good not to be seen.
By Jude Dry FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 12, 2024
It's hilarious, heartbreaking, distinctive, significant, and just what Hollywood needs after countless DC and Marvel projects.
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79
Apr 3, 2024
It’s a funky, janky, raw piece of autobiography, masquerading as the only thing the film industry makes anymore: A superhero movie. The riotous and weaponized result is everything the corporate use of the Joker isn’t, and everything it could be.
By Jacob Oller FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 2, 2024
Throughout The People’s Joker, Drew lampoons comedy institutions as freely as she does superhero hegemony, in effect mounting an impassioned argument for the vitality of art made at the margins regardless of classification.
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40
Apr 18, 2024
Its abstract foundation is incredibly fertile creative ground, but 'The People's Joker's nuclear, self-indulgent execution is the downfall to its buzzworthy rise.
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Production Company Open Road Films (II)
Release Date Apr 5, 2024
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Come see how she got these (emoticonal) scars.
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Awards

L.A. Outfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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