Deadpool & Wolverine (15)

The wise-cracking, foul-mouthed superhero returns for a third go-around. This time he teams up, trepidatiously, with a very familiar, claw brandishing X-Man, in this violent comedy caper.

Six years after the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is living a quiet life, having left his time as the cocky mercenary Deadpool behind him, until the Time Variance Authority (TVA)—a bureaucratic organisation that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline; you’ll know if you’re keeping up with those Marvel TV shows—pulls him into a new mission. With his home universe facing an existential threat, Wilson reluctantly joins an even more reluctant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, reluctantly accepting a fat paycheck) on a mission to stop this threat and prevent all the multiverses from collapsing.

Silly and convoluted story aside, this a violently raucous film, with enough nods to other Marvel characters, and even fourth-wall breaking jabs at Marvel and Disney as soulless, money grabbing corporations. Yes, it doesn’t make sense to see Jackman back yet again, after he hung up his claws for the last time with 2017’s affective Logan, but he’s still a blast to watch.