Suck it, Fox, I'm going to Disneyland

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

2024

Directed by Shawn Levy

Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wenick, Zeb Wells, Ryan Reynolds, and Shawn Levy

Spoilers: moderate

Ready player done

FREE GUY

2021

Directed by Shawn Levy

Written by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn

Spoiler alert: moderate

Elementary, my dear Pikachu

DETECTIVE PIKACHU

A decent-enough frivolity to waste 104 minutes with, and apparently I had more fun with it than I thought.

2019
Directed by Rob Letterman

Written by holy cow, that's a lot of people to write a Pokémon movie

Spoiler alert: Slightly higher than moderate

That's just lazy writing

DEADPOOL 2

A small step forward for the franchise, a great step backwards for the mega-franchise.  So let's just call it "fun," and not think about it again till Ryan Reynolds does another one that I won't be one bit excited about seeing, yet will nevertheless probably find myself enjoying anyway.

2018

Directed by David Leitch

Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wenick, and Ryan Reynolds

With Ryan Reynolds (Wade "Deadpool" Wilson), Zazie Beetz (Domino), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Karan Soni (Dopinder), Stefan Kapicic (Piotr "Colossus" Rasputin), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Julian Dennison (Russell "Firefist" Collins), and Josh Brolin (Nathan "Cable" Summers, not that you would learn this name from the movie he co-stars in, booooo)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Life in space is impossible

LIFE

Pleasantly grim and agreeably boilerplate, the worst thing you can say about Life is that it doesn't live up to its influences, but then, not too much does.

2017

Directed by Daniel Espinosa

Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick

With Olga Dihovichnaya (Ekaterina Golovkina), Rebecca Ferguson (Dr. Miranda North), Jake Gyllenhaal (Dr. David Jordan), Ariyon Bakare (Dr. Hugh Derry), Hiroyuki Sanada (Sho Murakami), and Ryan Reynolds (Rory Adams)

Spoiler alert: moderate

A fourth wall break within a fourth wall break? IT'S MADNESS MADNESS WE'RE ALL OF US FICTIONAL CHARACTERS NOW

DEADPOOL

More fun than funny, really, and very nearly crippled by an unrelentingly dull A-plot, Deadpool still winds up being a rather appealing hour and a half at the movies, thanks to its star and its willingness to let you know how incredibly desperately it needs your approval.

2016

Directed by T.J. Miller

Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick

With Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead) (thanks a lot Grant Morrison), Gina Carano (Angel Dust), and Ed Skrein (Ajax, ne Francis)

Spoiler alert: moderate