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‘Birds of Prey’ is the best DCEU movie yet — movie review

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Karl Delossantos
Feb 07, 2020
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After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl in Birds of Prey

Quick review: Birds of Prey has all of the chaotic energy that a movie about Harley Quinn should have packaged in a frenetic action-filled romp that’s impossible to resist.

Where to watch Birds of Prey: In theaters now

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has all of the chaotic energy that a movie about Harley Quinn should have. It’s often messy, sometimes over-the-top, confusing, laugh out loud funny, cringy, endearing, and somewhere beneath it all is the best DC extended universe movie thus far.

Harley Quinn (a pale, manic pixie dream girl Margot Robbie) was done largely wrong in the abysmal Suicide Squad where we were introduced to this universe’s version of the Joker. Not only was her character terribly one-note, but she also played nothing more than a second fiddle to other characters’ storylines — if you could e…

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