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Film critics have offered a range of views about Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, calling it "bleak and daring" but also "depressingly dull and plodding".

Awards shows celebrating TV have a long history of being far worse, somehow, than the most plodding dramas.

Film critics have offered a range of views about Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, calling it both "bleak and daring", but also "depressingly dull and plodding".

“There was dialogue and with political plodding, solutions emerged. But now, all too often, that doesn’t work anymore,” said Prof. Hendrik Vos of Ghent University.

Another problem was concisely articulated in a theater website email subject line describing one of the new musicals that opened in April as “plodding” but “necessary.”