Deadpool (2016)
Critic Reviews
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Hitfix Drew McWeeny
It is almost preposterous how little "plot" there is in the film...What it has in spades is attitude, and right up until the moment the film began, I was afraid It was going to be so juvenile and filthy that I would end up annoyed by it. Instead, from the very beginning of the opening credits, it is clear that director Tim Miller and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have crafted something deeply silly that isn't remotely interested in playing by the conventional rules of what we've come to think of as "the superhero genre."
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80
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
It takes a little while to get in gear - or perhaps just to adjust to what's going on here - but once it does, Deadpool drops trou to reveal itself as a really raunchy, very dirty and pretty funny goof on the entire superhero ethos, as well as the first Marvel film to irreverently trash the brand.
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80
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Total Film James Mottram
Loud, lewd, inventive and outrageous, Deadpool is a delight. All credit to Reynolds and co. for having the steel balls to go this far.
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80
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Variety Justin Chang
As a vehicle for the impudent comic stylings of Ryan Reynolds, this cheerfully demented origin story is many, many cuts above “Green Lantern,” and as a sly demolition job on the superhero movie, it sure as hell beats “Kick-Ass.”
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75
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Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty
It doesn't have the most adrenalized action sequences or the deepest origin story. What it has is the balls to mess with the formula and have some naughty, hard-R fun. It's a superhero film for the wiseasses shooting spitballs in the back of the school bus.
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72
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The Verge Tasha Robinson
This humor could be profoundly ugly, given how it's aimed at reducing other people's grotesque deaths to punchlines. But first-time director Tim Miller keeps the tone light - in his hands, Deadpool is more a snickering, naughty nut than an authentic sociopath.
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67
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indieWIRE Kate Erbland
As is often the case with such violence, it eventually becomes numbing. By its midpoint, once the novelty of a superhero movie showing super levels of violence wears off, the thinness and lack of spark in the fight scenes becomes more readily apparent. By the film's end, they are hard to distinguish from any other superhero fare. Similarly, lack of imagination keep the film's prodigious swearing and occasional nudity from feeling like anything original.
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63
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Slant Magazine Kenji Fujishima
The whiplash contrasts between snideness and sincerity is deeply rooted in the main character's psychology.
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60
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The Telegraph Robbie Collin
The fourth-wall-smashing is fun in a Ferris Bueller kind of way, but it's never pulled off with the devious panache of Blazing Saddles, let alone Funny Games or Hellzapoppin'. Since it's this stuff, rather than the ongoing thud-thud-thud of bad language and gore, that feels mould-breaking, it's a pity Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick's screenplay doesn't have the courage to experiment a little more.
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50
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The Playlist Kevin Jagernauth
It's a film that desperately wants to upend the tropes of the comic book movie, but perhaps more shocking than anything that comes out of the mouth of its often obnoxious titular hero, is how blandly the picture sticks to the origin story playbook.
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