The closest thing to genuine social satire about the massively popular and about-to-be-sequelized 2019 motion picture Joker is that it won two Academy Awards, firmly and semi-inexplicably confirming movies about a murderous lord of gimmick crime as the only consistent awards-bait in the world of comic-book cinema. No one has ever won (or even been nominated for) an Oscar for playing Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, or Iron Man. But two different actors now have Oscars for playing... Read this story
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