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REVIEW: DEADPOOL

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What a way to ring in the cinematic new year. Last year the box-office phenomenon was American Sniper , which became the biggest domestic movie of 2014 (did you know that?! I didn't know that!!), won an Oscar, caused loads of controversy and beat every single Marvel movie that came out that year in the U.S.: that's right, The Winter Soldier , Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy couldn't top Chris Kyle's biography. Well, as a little slice of revenge, here's a Marvel movie that's posed to not only beat American Sniper , but to beat Jesus himself. Here's Deadpool . That last comment wasn't irreverent sacrilege: Deadpool  is poised to dethrone The Passion of the Christ as the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time. Since 2004 that's made sense: naturally that film reaches an enormous built-in fan base. But a movie about sarcastic, antihero Deadpool, a relatively new comic book character (as opposed to say Batman and Superman, both 70-80