Completely discarding an expectation for a more sanitized take on the character, Blair’s new vision for The Toxic Avenger is an unhinged off-color extravaganza just about guaranteed to divide audiences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2024

An energetic and entertaining reboot that nonetheless struggles to prove the independent, lead-with-bad-taste worlds of Lloyd Kaufman and mainstream studio moviemaking are compatible.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2024

The dedication Dinklage brings a certain legitimacy to The Toxic Avenger which automatically makes it seem even more ridiculous.

| Feb 17, 2024

This cast seems to be having a blast in their roles, and its entertaining assault of absurd vulgarity and buckets of ooey, gooey, and chunky amounts of blood is hysterical ecstasy. The Toxic Avenger is undoubtedly ridiculous and laugh-out-loud funny.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Nov 2, 2023

The Toxic Avenger is a remake that foolishly tries to reimagine Toxie’s story by grounding the story’s ridiculousness in an underbaked father-son story, while concocting lesser versions of scenes from the original.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2023

No one can accuse The Toxic Avenger of being a watered down remake. It has all the gore and immature comedy that made the original beloved, which is exactly what the post-Marvel superhero genre needs right now.

| Oct 1, 2023

If you miss the days when super-adventures ran under two hours and featured unique backdrops, exaggerated villains and origin stories overflowing with radioactive ooze, Macon Blair’s remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger is for you.

| Sep 30, 2023

As broad as Blair allows things to get at times, he keeps his film grounded through familiar relationship and a worthy hero at its center. For those of you with so-called superhero fatigue, consider yourself alerted to the alternative.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2023

Blair may have cast big-name actors, but crucially none of them – led by Blair’s example – behave that this sick, over-the-top material is beneath them.

| Sep 27, 2023

Macon Blair's reimagining of The Toxic Avenger brings all the action, gore, and laughs horror fans will want and expect, but with an unexpected emotional core at the gooey center.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 27, 2023

Like Bacon, The Toxic Avenger gets better the bigger it goes, especially since "going bigger" means further distancing itself from the casings of standard superhero flicks.

| Sep 25, 2023

The Toxic Avenger is exactly as advertised. It does what it says on the tin. It’s comically violent, absurdly gory, and extremely silly. But it’s also a timely “eat the rich” story infused with an earnest working class perspective.

| Sep 25, 2023

Utter absurdity. Bonkers. Ridiculous...it’s a delight to say that this reimagining of Kaufman’s iconic mop wielding toxic avenger tale is entertaining and shockingly heartfelt.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 25, 2023

Goes beyond being just a genre exercise, and well beyond being a simple remake.

| Sep 24, 2023

The new Toxic Avenger does a commendable job bringing the trashy quality of a Troma film into the modern age. The cast is fun, the gore is plentiful, and a surprising amount of heart is injected in place of the originals more taboo elements.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Sep 23, 2023

The Toxic Avenger is a kick-ass good time. Hold your mop up high with pride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2023

It’s raw, weird, and over the top, but Winston just wants Wade to accept him for who he is, which proving he’s a hero will, hopefully, do.

| Sep 22, 2023

It struggles to deliver on the schlocky goodness of Troma’s stronger films. Still, what it lacks in so-bad-it’s-good silliness it makes up for with its heart and mostly practical slaughterfests.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 22, 2023

Here, “agreeably stupid” is the order of the day... It’s a deliberate choice on the filmmaker’s part -- one that will alienate much of the film’s potential audience, but will appeal to those already primed to snicker their way through it.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 22, 2023

The Toxic Avenger isn’t for everyone, or even for anyone. It’s not great. It isn’t even really very good. But it’s definitely something else.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2023