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Films like Deadpool.

Deadpool (2016) reads as Warm, breathless, extreme action / superhero, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Deadpool 2 (2018) poster
1. Deadpool 22018

Keeps the running vein of humour and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) poster
2. Why Don't You Play in Hell?2013

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016) poster
3. The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio2016

Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013) poster
4. The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji2013

Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Life Is a Miracle (2004) poster
5. Life Is a Miracle2004

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Scare Package (2019) poster
6. Scare Package2019

Keeps the running vein of humour and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Juan of the Dead (2011) poster
7. Juan of the Dead2011

Keeps the running vein of humour and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) poster
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) (2022) poster
9. Thor: Love and Thunder2022

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) poster
10. Tucker & Dale vs Evil2010

Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

The World's End (2013) poster
11. The World's End2013

Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) poster
12. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut1999

Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Deadpool’s neighbours — where are yours?

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