A moronic melange of narrative gobbledygook, Venom: The Last Dance wouldn't be worth your time even if it were tap dancing on Marvel's headstone.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 21, 2025

Like the previous entries, it's also something of a tonal jumble, part goofy buddy comedy, part po-faced sci-fi tale, with neither passing muster on their own, never mind awkwardly stitched together.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2025

Strike three.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 28, 2025

The third and final entry in what has proven to be among the junkiest of all Marvel movie franchises.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 28, 2025

Kelly [Marcel] peppers the film – particularly the banter between Eddie and the Venom symbiote – with moments that are sweet, funny, unconventional, and even moving

| Jan 21, 2025

Hardy brilliantly portrays Eddie and Venom as they meld into one, creating a dynamic duo that makes the Venom films engaging and entertaining to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2025

... a final film in the "Venom" trilogy whose ambitions fail to deliver the excitement or thrills of the prior two installments while also introducing a threat to nowhere, resulting in more tedium than entertainment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 21, 2025

The film may feature the same intriguing main characters, who provide it with some entertainment value, but it also suffers from notable problems with its antagonist, supporting characters, and overall storyline.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 20, 2025

It’s all so pointlessly silly, and loud, so so very loud, and very much aware of how silly and loud it is, because that seems to be the desperately stupid goal of these films.

| Dec 24, 2024

The Venom series can’t think in more imaginative terms than strategic deployment: Maybe if Hardy goes for it even harder, the greater Marvel universe will have no choice but to bend back in our direction!

| Original Score: C | Dec 12, 2024

The Venom series began as a lazy, cynical IP cash-in born from the wrongheaded notion that moviegoers want cinematic universes and superheroes in the abstract. It is now oddly innocent and specific, even compared to the brand it tried to emulate.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 11, 2024

As far as road trip tales go, “Venom: The Last Dance” finds a steady route.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 24, 2024

Playing Eddie and Venom, Tom Hardy wrings a surprising amount of sentiment from a performance that essentially involves talking to himself, and the film derives its tender tone from the notion that this partnership might finally have to come to an end.

| Nov 23, 2024

An absolute car crash of a film. That's not to say that bits of it aren't entertaining... if you throw enough poop at the wall, then some of it it's gonna stick.

| Nov 22, 2024

Marcel does understand that humour is the key to engaging with this character, the "buddy comedy" interplay between Eddie and Venom, and she gives the film a light touch with plenty of charming moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2024

So it's entirely possible that this movie felt like a letdown because the first two were decent and Tom Hardy is delightful but everybody involved just ran out of steam and gave up and decided to bum everybody out.

| Nov 20, 2024

The tired dynamic between Eddie and Venom, underdeveloped new characters, and a weak central antagonist make Venom: The Last Dance the most uninspired entry in the series.

| Original Score: D | Nov 19, 2024

If this is truly the last we’ll see of this iteration of Venom, then good riddance.

| Original Score: D | Nov 18, 2024

“Venom: The Last Dance” is like a graveyard for good actors’ spirits to die. Hardy, who is one of the greats, is just phoning it in and looks as if he is in this film under great duress.

| Nov 16, 2024

The studio should pay you [the viewer] to watch this horrible film. It's a complete waste of time. This was just a mess of a movie. Thank goodness it's "the last dance."

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 15, 2024