If you like your cinema understated and refined, then this is not for you. But for the rest of us, there's enough to enjoy here.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2018

I don't think the second film is terrible, I did find it quite dull.

| Aug 28, 2018

You know when you first see a meme that's fresh, still funny? Now, think about when you see that same meme after 4 months worth of riffing....that's Deadpool 2.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2018

...no grand satire here, just self-awareness - and enough surprises, solid jokes and well-crafted action sequences to be entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2018

I enjoyed Deadpool 2. For its humor, for its action sequences, for its relentless breaking of the fourth wall, and for giving us real, undeniable queer ladies.

| May 29, 2018

I loved this movie, I think it's funnier and more intelligent than its predecessor, but I know it's not for everyone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2018

Reynolds's underlying sweetness takes the edge off the comic's homicidal self-pity, though the endless shtick has a miss-to-hit ratio of about three to one.

| Original Score: 5 | May 24, 2018

Deadpool 2 is an R-rated, potty-mouthed splatterfest and a funny one.

| May 24, 2018

Deadpool 2 goes bigger than the first, but the shockingly touching family theme pulls all of the new characters and big set pieces together well. Another wild, hilarious ride for the character with just enough honesty and heart.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 20, 2018

There's very little to enjoy here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2018

Nearly everything about the original Deadpool was fresh and funny, from the opening credits to the parody of Marvel movie finales. Deadpool 2 suffers the fate of so many sequels: we've seen its best ideas before.

| May 19, 2018

Depending on your appetite for this stuff, the constant self-reference and breaking of the fourth wall is either a shameful cheat or a release from the sameness of the superhero template.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2018

His jibber-jabber gets tiresome after a while, however, and irreverent, subversive and shocking humour is funny only upto a point. After which, the grand action scenes aside, it feels like a pattern: Offend. Kill. Make an inside Marvel joke. Repeat.

| May 18, 2018

For all the impulsive flamboyance of Deadpool's patter, the liberating power of personal virtue, and the disinhibiting promise of second chances, "Deadpool 2" feels narrowly impersonal and oppressively unfree.

| May 18, 2018

Just as Robert Downey, Jr. has become the definitive Iron Man, Ryan Reynolds is Deadpool. It's the role he was born to play and whenever he's on screen, the movie's inner classic shines forth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 18, 2018

All in all, I prefer a Marvel movie that doesn't take itself seriously, but the nonstop unseriousness of Deadpool 2 can wear you down, too.

| Original Score: B- | May 18, 2018

Instead of seeking to top the over-the-top antics of the first film, [both director and star are] content to simply groove with what they've already established and just have fun. The result is less exhausting and more entertaining.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2018

Deadpool 2 embraces its enhanced output of blood, guns, and violence with open arms...before they're blown off.

| May 18, 2018

A little of Deadpool's incessant winkiness goes a long way, and by the time the movie was over, all I felt was sore.

| May 18, 2018

The film's greatest asset is Reynolds, who in Deadpool finally found the role of his dreams.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2018