Deadpool & Wolverine is a desperate Hail Mary

Movie ReviewBeneath the dick jokes and solid X-Men cameos, Deadpool & Wolverine feels like Marvel’s way of admitting how much of a mess its multiverse era has been.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Image: Jay Maidment / Marvel Studios

Though we’ve all poked fun at 20th Century Fox’s old X-Men films for the dubious wigs and middling stories that became rules rather than exceptions, the franchise played a significant role in defining the modern comic book movie genre. Without the live-action, leather-clad mutants

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