But put your brain in park, and “Kraven” can be fun.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 23, 2024

About as exciting as the board meeting from which it surely sprang.

| Dec 18, 2024

Don’t believe the bad buzz; this comic book adaptation is a goofy delight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2024

The game has its moments, but “Kraven the Hunter” goes in one eye and out the other, which has everything to do with genre fatigue — the studios’ more so than the audience’s.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 16, 2024

As much as it tries to be cool, the plotlines of this villain origin story just don't hang together.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 16, 2024

Kraven the Hunter is a terrible movie, but you almost feel sorry for it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 13, 2024

Like other Sony productions in the same vein, Kraven the Hunter alternates between entertainingly awful and just bad. Often the intended tone is anyone’s guess.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 13, 2024

The only pleasures Kraven the Hunter has to offer are faint, dumb, and guilty, and mostly supplied by an ensemble putting wildly varying amounts of effort into their underwritten paycheck roles.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 13, 2024

Everything feels simultaneously lifeless and desperate to please, from the computer-generated safari animals to the elaborate wire-work and four-letter swears.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 13, 2024

"Kraven" is far from the cream of the crop in the superhero space, but non-discerning comic book fans may appreciate the spoils of this bounty.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 13, 2024

Built on brawn, J.C. Chandor’s action sci-fi picture “Kraven the Hunter” is limited by incomprehensible plotting and dodgy one-liners delivered by a cast who seem to be practicing their worst Russian accents.

| Dec 13, 2024

It is a real shame to see such talent squandered on this incoherent mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 13, 2024

This superpowered comic book origin story could easily be mistaken for the dictionary definition of “meh.”

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 13, 2024

At least the action scenes relieve us from the clunky dialogue and bad accents.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 13, 2024

It’s just an undercooked pile of steaming mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 12, 2024

Kraven may be the world’s greatest hunter, but next time, he needs to track down a better movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 12, 2024

While all of the previous movies in this barely-series seemed scrambled together in a panic, Chandor’s movie seems scrambled together with a great deal of confidence and a bit of style.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 12, 2024

This bonkers superhero movie is at its best when it embraces its most bizarre elements. In those moments, Kraven the Hunter is chaotic fun that's an absolute blast to see on the big screen.

| Dec 11, 2024

This Spider-Man spin-off is entertaining—the action sequences hold together, blood gushes frequently, and Aaron Taylor Johnson dons a midriff-baring costume. But it's also convoluted and full of extraneous characters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 11, 2024

The real tragedy surrounding “Kraven the Hunter” isn’t that it promises a future that will never be, but that it could’ve allowed itself and the universe to which it belongs to go out with some dignity.

| Dec 11, 2024