Venom: The Last Dance
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 25, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
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75
Slant MagazineJake ColeOct 23, 2024
As the film progresses, it consistently escalates the stakes and scale of its action, which doesn’t devolve into incomprehensible CG murk as it hurtles toward the climax. Read full review
70
LooperDominic GriffinOct 24, 2024
It's a singular thrill to see how deftly Hardy blends weird comedy, genuine pathos, and even pseudo-homoerotic undertones into the kind of performance that would win Oscars if it weren't housed within such a deeply unserious, commercial film product. Read full review
70
Screen RantMolly FreemanOct 23, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance shows what happens when you let a perfectly cast actor and a director with a lot of affection for the character run wild in a world of Marvel superheroes. You get a movie that's a little weird, a lot silly, and full of fun. Read full review
68
The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 23, 2024
If this truly is the pair’s big-screen goodbye, at least it ends on a fittingly wacko note of pure, unadulterated sentimentality. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshOct 24, 2024
This “Last Dance” may be shaggy, silly and even a little bit stupid — and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, especially when it’s winking so hard at its own genre play. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 23, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance is dopey and silly and filled with familiar stock characters and well-worn tropes, but it’s almost never ponderous. Read full review
60
NMELou ThomasNov 1, 2024
Hardy fans keen for a laugh will lap it up and forgive the slightly incomprehensible plotting, while those who just want a break from reality can happily chuckle at a comic book (anti)hero who is uncommonly free from the navel-gazing that afflicts bigger names of the genre. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyNov 1, 2024
It’s hard to say how these films will be remembered in the grand scheme of comic book history, but, with The Last Dance, we can at least be reminded that sometimes they actually managed to have fun with these things. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 23, 2024
As you watch “The Last Dance,” the film obliterates any distinction between shooting the works and jumping the shark and just saying, “WTF, let’s do it!” Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyOct 23, 2024
Hardy brings sufficient charm (and witty voice work) to his symbiote-inhabited character’s internal battle between id and superego to make each entry diverting enough, even if they leave little aftertaste. And so it goes with Venom: The Last Dance, which caps the trilogy by going gleefully out on its own. Read full review
58
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerOct 23, 2024
Sometimes you’re laughing at the movie, not with it. But there are plenty of laughs, no matter what. Read full review
58
Paste MagazineJarrod JonesOct 23, 2024
As the final level in this game of go-along, Venom: The Last Dance is still figuring out what a Venom movie needs to be, a tricky juggling of tone and spectacle that will be amusing enough for those tuned into this series’ squishy, uncomplicated rhythms and a numbing headache for folks bewildered by the chaotic and often rudderless existence of a Venom trilogy. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 23, 2024
Despite the film’s best efforts to melt its characters into the vast sludge of superhero cinema, the union between Eddie and Venom is simply too pure to be diluted down to nothing. Thanks to Hardy, even the least of the movies in this franchise is definitely something, and it’s something that its genre may not be able to survive without. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Sarah-Tai BlackOct 25, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance remains steadfast in the franchise’s commitment to storytelling that, like a pot of water that never quite hits boiling point, is neither so-bad-it’s-good nor so bad it’s raucously entertaining, even if only unintentionally so. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 25, 2024
As for Venom, the potential inherent in the creature has been wasted and squandered over the course of three movies and this final installment is the worst offender of all. Read full review
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The Associated PressJake CoyleOct 23, 2024
I kept rooting for the surprisingly lifeless “The Last Dance” to pull way back on its save-the-world plot (and its CGI) and lean more into its most potent effect: Hardy’s split-personality double act. Read full review
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Screen DailyTim GriersonOct 23, 2024
What works best is the dopey charm of Hardy opposite his CGI sidekick. Their grouchy rapport is almost enough to make up for a slapdash script and some predictable genre elements. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerOct 23, 2024
Like its predecessors, Venom: The Last Dance has a little fun in the meantime. But in the end, it’s just a writhing symbiote waiting for a host that never shows up. Read full review
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USA TodayBrian TruittOct 23, 2024
The result is another middling comic-book adventure for the fan-favorite Spider-Man antihero that leans kooky and earnest and even saps some of its title character’s bite, though does give the snarling Venom a new aspect: a big baddie daddy. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 23, 2024
Why does this Last Dance feel so impersonal, so rote, so step-by-step predictable? Read full review
50
ColliderAidan KelleyOct 23, 2024
Is Venom: The Last Dance the best film in the trilogy? I would say so, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have quite a bit of fun while watching it. Read full review
45
PolygonSusana PoloDec 9, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance is so buried under its moving parts that it can’t do justice to any of them, in spite of Marcel’s efforts. Read full review
45
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeNov 1, 2024
So confoundingly ridiculous that it takes mediocrity to another level; narrative cinema rarely cares this little about actual narrative, transforming what’s supposed to be the concluding chapter of an ongoing saga into little more than pure sensation — blobs of color, bursts of sound. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeOct 27, 2024
Hardy is a highlight, playing Eddie as a man who has had more than enough of the party that’s raging in his head, but Kelly Marcel’s film is a sloppy, incoherent let-down. Read full review
40
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsOct 25, 2024
As slipshot and lazy as it all is, it passes the time as air-headed escapism, and does manage to save all its vaguely-original moves for a bulky final act that delivers some decent spectacle. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerOct 24, 2024
As a trilogy capper, The Last Dance is barely a shuffle and a shimmy. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonOct 24, 2024
Hardy voices both reedy Eddie and gravelly Venom and his roiling one-man-band of a performance continues to be the only reason to keep up with the films. Read full review
40
Vanity FairRichard LawsonOct 23, 2024
For the most part, the film’s offhanded, listless vibe feels like an insult to viewers, especially those who will pay actual money to see this thing. Read full review
40
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaOct 23, 2024
I came out of "Let There Be Carnage" wanting more Venom and Eddie. I came out of "The Last Dance" content to never see them again. If this really is "The Last Dance," it comes not a moment too soon. Read full review
40
Total FilmJamie GrahamOct 23, 2024
Frustratingly, [Marcel's] movie maintains the issues of the first two films – ropey effects, muddy night-time action scenes, a determination to be family friendly at all times – and then undoes any goodwill its more successful components have inspired by including a mid-credits sting that renders the previous 109 minutes obsolete. Read full review
40
ScreenCrushMatt SingerOct 23, 2024
Why make a Venom movie (much less three of them) if the character will never get to meet Spider-Man? Beyond the fact that it is sort of fun to see Tom Hardy act like a weirdo, I don’t think Sony ever came up with a satisfying answer to that question. Read full review
40
iChristina NewlandOct 23, 2024
The film’s inability to find a single tone – comic, cathartic or otherwise – makes it feel like a failure on all fronts, and the constant intrusion of loud, obvious pop needle-drops (and even a full disco-dancing sequence) don’t help. Read full review
40
IGNTom JorgensenOct 23, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance trips over its own tendrils and lets a boring, generic plot, and bad action distract from the surprisingly resilient central relationship between Eddie Brock and his symbiote bestie. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeOct 23, 2024
It’s quick and brash and seemingly aware of how goofy so much of it is but it’s also awkwardly overstuffed. Read full review
40
EmpireOlly RichardsOct 23, 2024
It’s third time unlucky for a series that still hasn’t worked out what it wants to be. The Last Dance can’t find its rhythm. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireOct 23, 2024
When it leans hard into the inherent absurdity of its wacky, mismatched buddy antics, “Venom: The Last Dance” can be a total blast. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen nearly as often as it should. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenOct 23, 2024
“The Last Dance” brings nothing new to the series. In fact, it brings less than the previous two movies Read full review
37
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 23, 2024
A road trip fugitive movie which barely works as a road trip, or as a fugitive movie, or as a movie. Read full review
33
Original-CinChris KnightOct 24, 2024
Is it worth the wait? I mean, if you’ve already sat through The Last Dance — and I can’t advise that you do — then you might at well see it through to the bitter end. And I do mean bitter. Read full review
30
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsOct 24, 2024
Boarding the long-steamless train of the infamous SSU, Venom: The Last Dance spreads the franchise's desperate joylessness to a nauseating degree. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreOct 23, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance isn’t a lark, but a smirk to let you know that while everyone may be aware of what it’s up to, you’re the sucker who bought the ticket. Read full review
25
ObserverDylan RothOct 25, 2024
True to form for this trilogy—which supposedly concludes here—the brainless and disjointed Last Dance skates by on star Tom Hardy’s charm and a few good gags. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 25, 2024
Hardy, perfecting the “meek” American shlub “type” he tackled in “The Drop” years ago, soldiers through this and has as much fun with the synthesized voice of Venom as he can. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 24, 2024
If you’re talking about “Venom: The Last Dance,” you know you’re talking about something unimportant. If you’re writing about it, you know you’re doing something embarrassing. But what about the people who made this movie? What level of awareness do they have? Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiOct 23, 2024
The ending means to stir our emotions, and it does inspire one: relief that it’s over. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinOct 23, 2024
As last dances go, it’s the Macarena in film form. Read full review
16
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezOct 23, 2024
Contrarian so-bad-its-good specialists with PhDs in advanced irony once hailed the “Venom” films as entertaining campy classics and tongue-in-cheek antidotes to the more conventional superhero genre, but you will not be surprised when none of those scholars pipe up in support of this grueling cinematic slog that further underscores just how bad the entire affair was all along. Read full review
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