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won’t even be out until Friday, and yet we’re already exhausted by all the discourse around it. The backstory here is that, the director behind the “The Hangover Trilogy,” has decided that the culture is now too woke to make comedy movies , so he’s decided he’s throwing his jokes out the window because he wants to make something real. Or he wants to make shamelessJustice League, were just like, “Yeah, sure, make a dark movie with our clown boy.”signed on , and now it’s here.
While Phoenix’s performance isgetting praise, some critics are definitely behind Phillips’s vision, while others point out that it’s like someone took parts of Scorsese’s, turned it up to 11, twisted it to appeal to lonely, angry, straight Internet fanboys, and then put clown makeup on it. Meanwhile, some law enforcement agencies across the country are worried that the film could trigger episodes of “incel violence,” though there’s been no specific threat.
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