Venom

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Venom

PG-13

2018

1h 52m

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Fantasy

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Journalist Eddie Brock is trying to take down Carlton Drake, the notorious and brilliant founder of the Life Foundation. While investigating one of Drake's experiments, Eddie's body merges with the alien Venom -- leaving him with superhuman strength and power. Twisted, dark and fueled by rage, Venom tries to control the new and dangerous abilities that Eddie finds so intoxicating.

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Critics Consensus

Venom's first standalone movie turns out to be like the comics character in all the wrong ways - chaotic, noisy, and in desperate need of a stronger attachment to Spider-Man.

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Audience Says

Some truly fun odd-couple chemistry plus the right blend of action and comedy make Venom's messy plot easy to forgive.

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Chris Bennion

The Times (UK)

Nov 16, 2022

Ironically, the film lacks a bit of bite...

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Mar 3, 2020

The film devotes way too much time to exposition (the first act feels like it goes on for about an hour), but once it gets going it's decent fun.

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

Livemint

Jul 29, 2019

The result is so infantile that you barely care to wait for the mandatory mid-credit Marvel teasers.

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Matt Donahue

But Why Tho?

Mar 25, 2025

6/10

Overall this movie has plenty of issues, most stemming from the PG-13 rating which just throws the tone, dialog, and even the action scenes into tailspins.

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Justin Kim

Loud and Clear Reviews

Jan 6, 2025

3/5

Venom isn’t quite so satisfying in its action department, but the main character(s) possess enough charm together to not suck the life out of the film completely.

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KT Mahe

For Your Reference Podcast

Oct 30, 2024

3.5/5

Venom tried something new in a familiar world of pop culture. The foundation built on fleshing out Brock’s character and motivations made it stand on its own as canon.

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RJ

May 7, 2025

The introduction into the world of Venom was gritty, comedic, and packed with the edginess you’d expect. Definitely worth it to see.

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Feliciano

Feb 24, 2025

Very good movie! But not too fund of the Symbian humanoid

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Carter H

@quality_finds 4 days ago

Expectations were very low, for I had gotten multiple people tell me this movie was bad Although I was surprised to enjoy the movie and be entertained Acting wise, amazing, Casting, great The thing about the movie is its predictable, not very creative, and not written that well If you’re a kid and you watch this movie you’ll like it, and if your an adult you could (no shame, I like it) But when we have to come side to side in comparison to movies like The Godfather and Deadpool, you don’t get to 4 star these types of movies The plot was okay, the characters and relationships were cool, not to mention the action and B.A. scenes I can say this a good introduction to Venom, and I enjoyed the movie and CGI, but it wasn’t a 4 star film The flaws? Predictable, ending conflict was too quick, Venom’s host as a “loser” was weird, peoples reactions to Venom seemed underwhelmed at times, casually becoming aliens as well I mean you can blow that off but its still not 4 star worthy so 3.5

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stephenpaul C

@ash20261234567890 6 days ago

The worldwide gross is $856,085,151.00.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 10, 2026

I own this movie on a DVD - thus my 4 star rating!

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Oaklee D

@ODie63 Sep 5, 2026

A fun popcorn flick if nothing else.

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Synopsis

Journalist Eddie Brock is trying to take down Carlton Drake, the notorious and brilliant founder of the Life Foundation. While investigating one of Drake's experiments, Eddie's body merges with the alien Venom -- leaving him with superhuman strength and power. Twisted, dark and fueled by rage, Venom tries to control the new and dangerous abilities that Eddie finds so intoxicating.

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Producer: Avi Arad, Matthew Tolmach, Amy Pascal
Screenwriter: Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Pascal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Tencent Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sci-Fi Violence|Action|Language)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 5, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 18, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $213.5M
Runtime: 1h 52m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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