'The Suicide Squad' is gory, goofy, and (shockingly) good

The Suicide Squad is a vast improvement. And in a world where a movie as bad as Suicide Squad (2016) exists? That’s enough.

Directed by Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn, this sequel-reboot hybrid revisits DC Comics’ notorious Task Force X — a cohort of death-defying supervillains working with the U.S. government in...