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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 : 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 : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Williams glows briefly in one of his final roles, but the overall magic feels dim.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
What is unexpected is the depth of emotion of many of the situations .

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
In the end, "Secret of the Tomb" certainly wasn't necessary, but its earnest goofiness is hard to resist.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The exhibits in this "Night at the Museum" may still come to life nightly. But their latest movie stays stubbornly inert.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Because when young children go to see a movie about dinosaur skeletons and a capuchin monkey who come alive at night in a museum, what they really want is to hear a divorced dad nagging his teen son about the value of an education.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
"Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" is a rather lackluster affair, a cash grab that tries to aim a little higher but confuses sappy shortcuts with real emotion.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
The third installment, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb may be the best, and even the generally wound-too-tight Ben Stiller - once again playing a bemused Museum of Natural History guard - is easy to tolerate.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Time to hang up the "Closed for Renovation" sign.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It's kind of fun, unembarrassingly, and not least of all because the people who made it look like they had a good time doing so.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
There's a serenity to museum visits, especially if it's a place you know and love. "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb," amazingly, recaptures that feeling in big-studio franchise form.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
An altogether satisfying end to a series that has been vastly more entertaining than it had any reason to be.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Let the dust finally settle on these museum pieces.

Name : John Semley / Alias : Globe and Mail
Funny, charming kiddie-flick fare.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
A diverting and, here and there, rather funny journey for the museum stalwart Larry and his menagerie of Teddy Roosevelt, a miniature Roman general, a Neanderthal, a capuchin monkey and others.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
The most worthy figure from British history the writers can think to reincarnate is - wait for it - Sir Lancelot.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Assuming Wilson isn't being eyed as Stiller's replacement (or are we starting rumors?), it's satisfying to see this series ultimately shake off the relic dust and bow out with energy.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Like many a sequel that has exhausted its plot possibilities, Secret of the Tomb looks abroad to add color and culture.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
More meh than manic, too reliant on wide shots of the ragtag Museum of Natural History cohorts striding down corridors.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Other than some stock establishing shots of London, the British setting is wasted, as are Ben Kingsley and Ricky Gervais, who, at times, seem almost embarrassed to be caught on camera.

Name : Kristin Tillotson / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ben Stiller and crew go for the easy laughs, spackling the cracks in their armor with a cavalcade of marquee-name cameos and one dizzying action scene after another.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's all dumb, but fun.

Name : Walter V. Addiego / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Mainly for "Night at the Museum" diehards.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
There are some key elements that make this "Night at the Museum" sequel work better than its predecessor.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Granted, this series is primarily for kids, but nobody should feel dumber after watching a movie with "museum" in the title.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Ben Stiller, Steve Coogan, Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais - all of them were considered edgy when they first arrived on the scene, but for some performers an edge is just something you use to pry open the piggy bank.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Where the previous films felt frenetic and forced, this outing feels breezier, more enjoyable and less contrived.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
It's a hectic pileup, this movie, but at least in its final laps it takes the time to say its goodbyes more or less properly.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
Levy - who directed all three movies - just couldn't muster up enough freshness to make this installment stand out from others.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Frankly, there isn't a whole lot about this scenario that isn't disturbing on some level.