Name : Katie Rife / Alias : AV Club
We . get zombie diarrhea jokes, zombie fat jokes, zombie selfie jokes, zombie cat-lady jokes, and zombie stripper jokes. And when all of this starts to seem too crass, out come the cliched lessons .

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : Village Voice
What makes X-Men: Apocalypse so exciting isn't really any one thing but rather its cohesion, its storytelling verve.

Name : Maggie Lee / Alias : Variety
A lazily executed dud padded out with infantile pranks, shambolic plot turns and knockabout action.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
It's all too dumb and ribald for most tastes, but if you liked all the zombie comedies that came before, well, here's another one.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The result is a movie that's outrageous without being funny, and gruesome without being scary.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" is exactly what you'd expect. But better.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Too often revels in juvenile gags involving poop and penises, but you can see shards of the film it might have been.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Apocalypse isn't quite a dog. But it is a movie with way too much of everything except the things that should matter the most - novelty, creativity, and fun.

Name : Edward Douglas / Alias : New York Daily News
Unlike some of the cheesier remnants of the '80s, we'll probably want to see more of these new X-Men.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I've seen worse this year. And better.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
As horror, "Scouts Guide" is too frivolous to thrill. As comedy, it leans too much on scenes that see the teens groping big-breasted topless zombies or the beasties sexually molesting young girls.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
No surprises here, just a seen-it-before world domination plot carried out by a petulant Pharaoh with a head like a chewed pencil.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
If your idea of a hot joke is a strip club called "Lawrence of Alabia," step right up to "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse," a horror-comedy that takes a weak premise (do high school boys even go scouting anymore?) and barely uses it, anyway.

Name : Manori Ravindran / Alias : Globe and Mail
It's the best public relations boost Scouting has had since it ended its ban on gay leaders, not to mention a pretty decent zombie film.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
[A] numbingly idiotic vampire yakuza tale.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Village Voice
If you can get on its wacko wavelength, it's a uniquely crazed, compelling midnight-movie whatsit.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
For those fans who don't mind enduring some tedium and confusion, "Yakuza Apocalypse" at least offers something memorably bizarre.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The latest in the X-Men movie franchise is just X-meh.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The film falls prey to the zombie curse of excessive laddishness, but at least it finds room for a strong female character.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Marks a shocking letdown from Singer's earlier contributions; what once soared now slogs.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse manages to be a very good comedy, a scary adventure, a tale of friendship and a coming of age story, all rolled into one.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Lurid and nutso doesn't even begin to describe this opus. You have to see it to believe it . if you have the stomach for it.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The gags are mostly puerile and uninspired - like the film was dreamed up by a bunch of tired, wired 13-year-olds; it has their insistence but little of their invention.

Name : Alan Zilberman / Alias : Washington Post
This is not a great film, yet for the right audience it could be an entertaining one.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is turning into the season of superheroes battling other superheroes, but "X-Men: Apocalypse" is the first one, so far, to do it right.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
The Scouts save the day, but not the movie, in this witless zombie-comedy retread.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Piece by piece, Singer fits this ninth film in the franchise (which includes Deadpool) into the X-Men universe like a master puzzle maker. He does it so well, at least in terms of storytelling, that the X-Men franchise still has a vigorous future.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
Disappointingly [succumbs] to an exhausting case of been-there-done-that-itis.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
By the end . you might be as punch-drunk as Kageyama in his final showdown, and too exhausted to care.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Will make you want to punch the nearest teenage boy in the face.

Name : Devan Coggan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
After decades of well-trodden zombie tropes, a successful zombie movie has to be at least one of three things: a) original b) funny or c) actually scary. Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse doesn't earn a merit badge in any one of those categories.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Despite the undeniable presence of a huge amount of action, X-Men: Apocalypse is decidedly a case of more is less.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Yakuza Apocalypse is the kind of free-for-all only Miike could stage-pitting not merely different characters, but different genres and tones against each other, until the world cracks in two under the weight.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Well, it's got that title going for it. So there's that.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Directed by the inimitable Takashi Miike. Apocalypse finds the 55-year-old filmmaker at his silliest, which is saying a lot, as he's responsible for some of the silliest movies ever made.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Is it a hoot? Largely, yeah, if you like smug, dumb in-your-face humor.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
It's a film that's amused with itself, but thanks to a screwball screenplay by Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick and a charmingly snarky lead turn by Ryan Reynolds, that amusement is both thoroughly earned and completely contagious.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
While "Deadpool" heralds the arrival of a talented new director, its success belongs to Reynolds, who also served as a producer.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
Deadpool, intended as a spiky antidote to superhero oversaturation, ends up impaling only itself.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is bad, borderline garbage, but disturbing, too, in that it's just the kind of fake-clever awfulness that might be cinema's future.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Smart, sexy and outrageous, "Deadpool" delivers.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
It's a voraciously self-aware comedy, one that dines out on the inherent inanity of its own premise as much as it does the movies it's competing with.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
this movie's junky feel is part of its charm. Sure it goes on too long and repetition dulls its initial cleverness. Still, Deadpool is party time for action junkies and Reynolds may just have found the role that makes his career.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Deadpool succeeds where other irreverent send-ups of the genre failed. [But] the over-the-top mayhem, do-you-kiss-your-mother-with-that-mouth trash talk, and jokey cynicism can't stop [it] from hurtling toward predictability.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Just as Deadpool himself wears a mask to hide his hideous features, Deadpool conceals a highly conventional origin story under a lot of winking self-awareness.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The filmmakers do a lot of winking and rib poking; they sell "Deadpool" so hard that you might wonder if Marvel has started to pay on commission.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's not subversive - it's meant to elasticize and enhance the superhero genre, to flatter the audience for being hip enough to get all of those in-jokes. And I was flattered.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Rarely boring, but not half as smart, funny or subversive as it clearly believes itself to be.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
Deadpool avoids enough pitfalls to both embrace and flambe the superhero genre while also finding time for romance, doling out equal handfuls of bullets, barbs and warm fuzzies.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
Ryan Reynolds gets the full-throttle wisecracking showcase he deserves in this scabrously funny origin story.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
It's fun, but it's not for everyone, and definitely not for families.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
In the end, it's hard to shake the feeling that they've made a movie for boys that only adults are allowed to see. For the future sleepover party where some open-minded parent allows a screening, it'll surely be a blast.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This is a different kind of movie. The only rule it adheres to is that tropes are made to be eviscerated, turned on their heads, and trampled over.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Reynolds has never meshed as well with a character or found a better outlet for his smirking, smart aleck persona.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Reynolds' mighty mutant title character is anything but a conventional superdude, even before he acquires his extreme skills, red-hooded cosplay costume and scarred face and mind.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Reynolds is entertaining; it's rather sweet to see this eternally not-quite-a-star get closer than usual to justifying star billing.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The Atlantic
Flamboyantly vulgar and determinedly self-referential, Deadpool has the shape of a superhero movie but the soul of a Danny McBride flick.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
There aren't many superhero movies that exploit the liberating effects of the hard-R rating. But to me, the mock opening credits are the only detail that is fresh - sophomoric, but fresh.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
It seems less irreverent than self-congratulatory.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
Deadpool is everything that Hollywood has raised audiences to believe heroes are not: crass, selfish and with a vocabulary that would have made George Carlin blush.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
Watching the film is like sitting at dinner with a teen-ager who believes that, if he swears long and loudly enough, he will shock the grownups into accepting him as one of their own.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
Fans of X-Men will gobble it up, especially lewd teenage boys; newcomers to the Marvel Universe may miss some of the best zingers.

Name : Ethan Sacks / Alias : New York Daily News
The politically incorrect material suits Ryan Reynolds as snugly as Marvel's tight red costume, giving the Canadian actor a chance to work out his mutant power for hurling snarky one-liners.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A really raunchy, very dirty and pretty funny goof on the entire superhero ethos, as well as the first Marvel film to irreverently trash the brand.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It takes a strong stomach for extreme violence and over-the-top obscenity, but if you're willing to roll with that, "Deadpool" is a hoot.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Deadpool benefits from an intimate story with more heart than you would expect, but also a go-for-broke zeal, edging at times into Naked Gun-style parody.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
If only Deadpool were as clever, dark and funny as it believes itself to be.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Imagine Spider-Man with legitimately funny quips, waaay less angst, and a bug-eyed getup that's lethally accessorized.

Name : Will Leitch / Alias : The New Republic
Deadpool is obnoxious and puerile and infantile and has an irritating meta tone so snide that it's constantly in danger of nullifying the entire movie - and I still got a pretty big kick out of it.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
Deadpool . has the singular virtue of being funnier than we've been led to believe a superhero film can be.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Maximally cheeky. Perversely potty-mouthed. Riotously funny. Insanely violent. Uneven as all get out. And fun, fun, fun.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Deadpool is, on the whole, a big bowl of fun filled with great stunts, gory fight scenes, and sexy poses.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
You're initially jazzed by his effrontery, but Deadpool, with his relentlessly glib, nothing-sacred attitude, is not an individual who wears particularly well.

Name : Britton Peele / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Calling Deadpool "just another comic book movie" would do injustice to a film that makes a strong effort to deliver something different.