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The Suicide Squad (2021) This is what the DC Comics adaptation should have been the first time. An exhilarating trailer did not quite translate into an exhilarating final cut for 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” thanks to some common studio interference. Five years later, second’s time a charm. Whereas chaos reigned in the editing room for the hot mess that even director David Ayer himself disowned, writer-director James Gunn’s do-over/sort-of sequel “The Suicide Squad” is full of controlled chaos and feels exactly like the movie he wanted to make. It’s all very much Gunn, the offbeat dude who gave us “Slither,” “Super,” and the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies  on the Marvel side, and he brings a freewheeling, rambunctious, weirdo energy—and lots and lots of over-the-top gore—that feels just right for this material. Viola Davis is back to being ruthless and nearly popping a blood vessel while playing government official Amanda Waller. She assembles a team of bad-to-the-bone prisoners fo...

F9 (2021) The further the “Fast and the Furious” franchise goes over the top and the smaller the “Vibe” magazine article source about underground street racing that inspired the 2001 original appears in the rearview mirror, the better. “F9”—not counting 2019’s spinoff “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” —is the ninth installment in the hugely successful racing/heist/spy/superhero franchise, one that persists as steadily as Vin Diesel’s bis and tris. This increasingly absurd saga shows signs of slowing down, but one can’t wait to see it jump all of the sharks when Dom Toretto and the fam are having wheelchair races and pulling off food heists from their nursing home cafeteria. For now, “F9” offers everything the fans crave. Bringing director Justin Lin (who was behind movies 3-6) back into the driver’s seat, number nine is gleefully well-endowed with insanely physics-defying action stunts, dramatic soap-opera reveals, more globe-trotting than you can shake a passport at, and...