TOTO: Is This Why The Media Turned On Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Joker’?

The initial reports on Todd Phillips’ “Joker” film proved universally positive, glowing even. Joaquin Phoenix as Batman’s archnemesis? A supervillain movie sans the usual CGI mayhem? A comic book film with legitimate Oscar buzz?

Bring it on. The superhero genre needs an enema, to paraphrase one of Jack Nicholson’s barbs from 1989’s “Batman.”