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Bat in it and both are arriving on screens within a month of each other.
Gotham City is really in the spotlight.
Are they both giving people Joker smiles or is one stealing the show?
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What series creator Lauren LeFranc achieves is a contradiction.
Yet Oz senses something in his new protege that once brewed inside him a desire to fit in somewhere.
Oz uses Vics vulnerability to build a bond with him.
In the film, Arthur is a void onto which others project what they want to see.
He has a split personality, according to his devoted lawyer, Maryanne Stewart (Catherine Keener).
Hes someone faking a mental illness, according to DA Harvey Dent (Harry Lawtey).
Phillips cant seem to pinpoint what Arthur is either.
Hes now just a singing-and-dancing puppet clown living in his imagination.
Audiences, I suspect, will still turn out in droves to see Folie a Deux.
But when it comes to bold mainstream filmmaking, its the scolds who are having the last laugh.
This one is built on more of a conceit than a solid story foundation.
In Joker: Folie a Deux, Phillips isnt taking any chances.
John Nugent,Empire
