Suicide Squad
Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 5, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 53 Critic Reviews
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11
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26
Negative:
16
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
USA TodayBrian TruittAug 2, 2016
Compared to its ilk, Suicide Squad is an excellently quirky, proudly raised middle finger to the staid superhero-movie establishment. Read full review
83
HitfixDrew McWeenyAug 2, 2016
Suicide Squad is not the darkest mainstream superhero comic book movie ever made, nor is it even the darkest live-action film featuring Batman ever made. However, it is gleefully nihilistic, and it takes a different approach to what has become a fairly familiar story form at this point, right at the moment when it feels like superhero movies either have to evolve or die. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonDave CalhounAug 2, 2016
In the end, the characters are more lasting than the story, which is a standard save-the-city-from-destruction yarn. But this crew is a riot, and their world is intriguing and even a little meaningful. Read full review
80
EmpireDan JolinAug 2, 2016
Like Avengers Assemble forced through a Deadpool mangle, Suicide Squad gives new life to DC’s big-screen universe. So bad-to-the-bone it’s good. Read full review
70
Village VoiceBilge EbiriAug 2, 2016
David Ayer's film may not always work, but when it does, it's a perverse delight. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 2, 2016
Writer-director David Ayer (End of Watch) skillfully sets up the film, introducing each of the crazies with caffeinated comic-book energy. But their mission...is a bit of a bust. The stakes should feel higher. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonAug 4, 2016
Suicide Squad had the potential to be as hilariously irreverent as “Deadpool,” a surprise box-office hit about a similarly sociopathic hero. Instead, it’s just another film that relies on special effects to distract the audience from a story that’s overblown and underwhelming. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 4, 2016
Suicide Squad prides itself on being “dark,” but it’s really just jokey, cynical, and violent, not to mention visually ugly as sin. It’s as subversive as milk. But the cast and the pacing keep it moving. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniAug 3, 2016
Suicide Squad does have quite a few tremendously entertaining sequences of high action and low comedy. It's a shame it never rises beyond that. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAug 3, 2016
“The Dirty Dozen,” one of my favorite war movies, will no doubt get a 50th-anniversary boxed set next year. Those of us who wait for it can mark time with Suicide Squad, which borrows the same concept and executes it with more lunacy and far less flair. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenAug 2, 2016
It’s Harley Quinn’s movie and everybody else in Suicide Squad is just a supporting character. No surprise there. That’s the way it is in the comic books, too. It’s all about personality, and Harley has that by the freight carload. Read full review
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