I want to see the real you,” Arthur Fleck’s new girlfriend tells him as she applies clown makeup to perk up his wretched face in “Joker: Folie à Deux.” She, a fangirl and fellow inmate at the state mental hospital whom he meets in a music-therapy class,

What I most wanted in “Folie à Deux” was for it to stop playing with the concepts of its characters and instead let them breathe a little more on their own.

Joker: Folie à Deux might be a courtroom drama, but it's also a surreal, dreamy, and twisted love story between Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck, AKA the Joker himself, and Lady Gaga's Harley "Lee" Quinn.

Joker: Folie à Deux is the highly anticipated sequel to the 2018 smash hit, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker. This time,