The Toxic Avenger
Cineverse | Release Date: August 29, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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90
Film ThreatBobby LePireAug 29, 2025
The cast is perfect in every way, and each actor brings the right amount of silly and serious to their respective role. This might not be quite as good as Kaufman’s beloved property, nor as brilliant as the stage musical, which remains the definitive distillation of Toxie’s antics. Still, it is a damned fun time at the movies with enough nods and references to please even the most diehard of Troma purists. Read full review
83
Original-CinThom ErnstAug 28, 2025
The Toxic Avenger (Toxie to his friends) returns, not as a cheap shock-off of the cult sludge from which it emerged, but as a formidable companion piece to Lloyd Kaufman’s gloriously grungy original. Read full review
83
The PlaylistWarren CantrellAug 28, 2025
Low rent, CGI splatter effects by the bucket-full honor the Troma roots of this property, while practical costume, make-up, and production design speak to the reverence of the same. It ain’t pretty, sure: but that was never the Toxic Avenger’s style. Blair and company understand this, and the movie (world?) is better for it. Read full review
82
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiAug 28, 2025
A heartwarming, horrifically violent homage to the most lovable dreck ever produced outside of the studio system. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 28, 2025
Don't let the big (but not that big) budget fool you: It's Troma, baby, just how you like it. Read full review
76
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 27, 2025
This is a remake built on equal parts care and admiration, a love letter to all the sickos out there. It’s nothing to simply wash your hands of. Or flush away. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubJarrod JonesAug 30, 2025
The Toxic Avenger is an imperfect but no less vital lifeblood transfusion for the cheapo horror-comedy: a cartoon-carnage splash-a-thon, and an eco-conscious call to clean out the profiteers poisoning us and our planet. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsAug 29, 2025
The movie’s cast members all seem to understand their assignments, which makes even the sketchiest material seem more robust. There’s also more technical polish, as well as a general knack for comic timing, than you might expect from a remake of “The Toxic Avenger.” Read full review
75
The Daily BeastNick SchagerAug 27, 2025
Campy, corny, and carnage-laden goofiness, all of it spearheaded by Peter Dinklage as a working-class schlub who’s transformed into a deformed do-gooder. Read full review
75
SlashfilmJacob Hall
Blair made a movie that feels built to amuse himself. And I'm glad it exists. It feels like he got away with ... something. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreAug 30, 2025
The splatter comes more easily to this new movie than a grasp of overall tone does. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 30, 2025
Whether poking at superhero cliches (there’s a choice post-credit scene) or trying to be kill-clever, it’s all in dopey, gruesome fun, although, to reiterate, a “Toxic Avenger” even normies can enjoy doesn’t exactly sound like a true Troma tribute. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBrandon YuAug 29, 2025
The outrageous violence, a core allure of the original, remains, but the gross-out is situated in a more colorfully pulpy universe and has a more smartly self-conscious touch to its comedy. Read full review
70
VarietyMichael NordineSep 25, 2023
This is an inside joke of a film, but it’s also one that wants you to be in on it. Read full review
67
IndieWireKatie RifeSep 25, 2023
In Blair’s The Toxic Avenger, the side gags are the film. The rest of it is the filler. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyAug 30, 2025
The Toxic Avenger is funny and charming, with a joke rate as consistent as this year’s The Naked Gun, and snappy editing that mimics the Edgar Wright brand of genre parody. Read full review
60
EmpireSophie ButcherAug 28, 2025
An entertaining, frivolous ride through a wacky, well-realised world, The Toxic Avenger is a charming underdog story offering plenty of laughs. The very opposite of toxic. Read full review
60
IGNAmelia EmberwingSep 22, 2023
What it lacks in so-bad-it’s-good silliness it makes up for with its heart and mostly practical slaughterfests. Kevin Bacon and Peter Dinklage having an absolute blast in their roles doesn’t hurt, either. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeAug 24, 2025
Pulled awkwardly in so many directions, this Toxic Avenger all but comes apart at the seams. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 20, 2025
This solid roster of acting talent can’t do much about how frankly uninteresting and unfunny The Toxic Avenger is most of the time. As satire or spoof of both superhero movies and scary movies it is abysmally obsolete, and on its own terms as horror-comedy it achieves neither scares nor laughs. Read full review
30
Little White LiesAnton BitelSep 3, 2025
This new The Toxic Avenger is relatively restrained, infuriatingly unfunny, yet entirely on-the-nose for more than just the stench of rot and urban decay that its scenes so frequently evoke. Sometimes the old hits are just better left uncovered. Read full review
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