Set in late 1970s early 1980s in a Gotham that looks a whole lot like New York City of he same era, Todd Phillip's gritty and chaotic film has been a darling of the festival circuit and was predicted to foster dissent if not out and out violence. We'll discuss whether the genre-warping Joker, a new take on Arkham Asylum's most celebrated inmate, is all it's cracked up to be.