A personal project made on a small budget that addresses the author's transition, as well as other social themes through the famous DC Comics antihero. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2025

The People’s Joker is a weird one to sit through, but it’ll grow on you like a fungus.

| Mar 8, 2025

The DC Extended Universe should take notes. This legally challenged DIY parody is, hands down, the most innovative superhero film of the decade.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2025

Drew’s radical approach to their coming-of-age trans story is dazzlingly self-assured. It’s a warts-and-all depiction laced with biting humour, sincerity, absurd silliness and rampant DIY creativity from all involved.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2025

Vera Drew uses comic book tropes and characters in a joyous allegory for LGBTQ+ disruption of heteronormative, corporatised societal structures.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 17, 2025

Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker is a multihyphenate masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2025

This madcap comedy is finally being released, two years after it was made, just in time for some comic relief from the dark direction the world is headed. Amazingly, this crazy, funny movie was released, despite legal problems. I am sure glad it was.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 25, 2025

The film's genuine power, and it is a powerful piece of art, is in the obvious piece of autobiography Vera Drew has made about themselves and their journey.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 10, 2025

"The People's Joker" is well on its way to being a nail in the superhero coffin the same way "Blazing Saddles" was for Westerns or "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" for musician biopics.

| Dec 24, 2024

It’s a movie that refuses to wear anything but the weird, lumpy, ill-fitting self it is. As such, it becomes the glorious, villainous scheme even Batman can’t crack.

| Dec 7, 2024

The People’s Joker is an explosion of anger, joy, and art. More earnest and important than any superhero movie that came before it.

| Nov 14, 2024

Those who found Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker edgy and exciting should steer clear of The People’s Joker. But those who found it shallow and sophomoric should take to this dazzling DIY achievement.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2024

THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is one of the most inventive films in recent years.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 8, 2024

The best satire splits the difference between affection and contempt, and the debut of Vera Drew, the comedy writer turned DIY dynamo, is no different.

| Jul 23, 2024

The People’s Joker is absolutely a superhero story ... But The People’s Joker is also a transgressive piece of outsider art and a personal human story, which uses the language of superhero movies to tell a tale of identity and becoming.

| Original Score: A | Jul 19, 2024

This isn't just sticking it to the man, it's a middle finger to the entire cis-tem with Drew as our puckish master of ceremonies, confidently asserting herself as a thrilling and vital new voice.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 17, 2024

Writer-director-lead actor Vera Drew has made a daring and subversive film about why a trans person finds solace and meaning in a superhero villain.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 5, 2024

Drew’s exploration of gender through her own life [and] a villain’s origin tale, pops through pop culture and personal revelations with equal attention. There’s magpie intensity in every frame, rising from a gullet of sharp gravel and soothing bubblegum.

| Jul 4, 2024

As an experience, The People’s Joker is wild, and unlike anything I’ve seen in years. It looks and sounds exactly like its filmmaker, and that’s the sincerest and best compliment I could think of.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Yet the beautiful thing about this movie's lasting imprint is that it's intended not to be one of comic-book-level significance, but of a film that foregrounds its message and its existence...

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 2, 2024