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Suicide Squad asks us to choose: evil or extinction

Smith and Robbie play baddies recruited for the greater good

SPOILER ALERT: SUPERMAN IS DEAD. Or at least he appeared to be at the end of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the March blockbuster that took in $873 million worldwide. So with the Man of Steel out of the way in Suicide Squad, the latest installment from the DC Comics world, the U.S. government ponders how to protect the planet without Clark Kent’s alter ego. Its best

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