Venom

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Venom

PG-13

Released Oct 5, 2018

1h 52m

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Adventure

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

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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

Times (UK)

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

Nov 16, 2022

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

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.

Mar 3, 2020

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

Livemint

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

Jul 29, 2019

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Justin Kim

Loud and Clear Reviews

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.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 6, 2025

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KT Mahe

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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.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 30, 2024

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Oti

For Your Reference Podcast

Pacing issues aside, Venom establishes the quirky Brock-Venom dynamic perfectly. A fun setup that hints at the chaos to come without overdoing it.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 30, 2024

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Feliciano

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

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/25

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12915 P

Venom was a great movie filled with awsomeness and action, although Carlton Drake was an awful and lame villain, Riot manage to make it up, Riot was the real villain of the movie and was an absolute powerhouse, and could've easily defeated Venom and Eddie if Ane hadn't used that sonic wave of sound. The movies is great but it would've been better if it was R-rated i mean they could have done it Sony made an R-rated movie for Kraven but why not for Venom, But over all thise movie was awsome and it's best movie of the Venom trilogy.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/19/25

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Ava S

why was that actually good it was good although I feel like it became a little rushed towards the end

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/09/25

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Laze T

Whats the critics problem MANNNN

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/07/25

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Lauren B

It is an incoherent mess that is rife with plot holes. That being said, this is my favorite movie of all time. Zero out of ten, I would die for this movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/06/25

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Joshua W

It was all right. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that good either.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/30/25

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Eddie Brock

Michelle Williams

Anne Weying

Riz Ahmed

Carlton Drake

Scott Haze

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Reid Scott

Dr. Dan Lewis

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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, Kelly Marcel
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
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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