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The French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprises
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Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Joker: Folie à Deux - Why has it been such a catastrophic box-office failure?
The film’s nosedive will have repercussions for the still-floundering DC and beyond
Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth it
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First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta
Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festival
Among the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-up
Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition
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