International reporter James Hadfield thinks Deadpool is a perfect big-budget film for Gen Xers around the world. He’s right: Despite the film’s general lightheartedness, the way it “parod[ies] the [superhero] genre’s excesses while adding a new level of po-mo self-awareness” works for this skeptical and savvy generation.
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