The Suicide Squad reviews are in — and it's better than Black Widow

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Reviews for The Suicide Squad are starting to trickle in, and the sequel is being lauded every bit one of the best alive-activity comic book movies of all fourth dimension. That's pretty strong praise for a film that nobody really asked for.

Currently, the moving picture sits on 98% on the popular review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. This is significantly higher than the most recent Curiosity film, Black Window, which merely managed to earn an 81% rating. Although the latest picture show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe did earn itself a "certified fresh" badge, a feat that The Suicide Squad could match in time.

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It's of import to note that currently The Suicide Squad's score is calculated from 63 reviews. Typically wide-release blockbusters stop up getting hundreds of reviews, and then the 98% score is far from set in stone. However, rarely does a movie receive such a warm early response only to drop substantially every bit more reviews are published. Expect the movie to only drop a few percentage points at most.

The latest entry in the DC franchise is a semi-sequel to 2016's Suicide Squad; that film earned an abysmal 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. And then it's off-white to say The Suicide Squad is a big step upwardly in quality. In fact, as it stands The Suicide Squad is the highest-rated DC moving-picture show of all time, even besting The Dark Knight, which earned 94%.

David Ehrlich of IndieWire called it "The nigh fun and to the lowest degree depressing superhero motion-picture show in a very long fourth dimension" while Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times said, "I couldn't imagine liking — and could barely stomach the thought of seeing — another movie called 'Suicide Squad.' I'm delighted to exist proven wrong."

Collider'southward Matt Goldberg describes the film as "the all-time [DC Extended Universe] film even so." Though in fairness that's non an especially high bar to clear. Only ii movies to engagement within the interconnected franchise have scored higher than 90%, Shazam and Wonder Woman, and 5 were branded with a rotten characterization (which ways they scored below sixty%).

For the unaware, The Suicide Squad is helmed past James Gunn, the manager of Marvel'due south two Guardians of the Galaxy films, and the large assemble bandage features Margot Robbie, Idris Elba and John Cena. The moving-picture show follows a grouping of comic-book villains forced to squad up in guild to save the world; otherwise, they'll face execution. It's due to release simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max on Baronial 6. After such a stiff critical reception, that wait now feels a little bit longer.

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Rory is a staff writer at Tom'south Guide based in the UK. He covers a wide range of topics including tech news, deals, gaming, streaming and more. When he'due south not writing hot takes on the latest gaming hardware and streaming shows, he can be establish watching a borderline unhealthy amount of movies and being thoroughly disappointed past his terrible football team.