At a time when every new superhero film feels like the worst to have been released since 2021, there is a certain novelty in seeing one that feels like the worst to have been released in 1998. Say hello to Venom: The Last Dance: the third in an unlikely trilogy of solo adventures for Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock, the Spider-Man-adjacent anti-hero whose body has been hijacked by a wisecracking alien parasite.

Like its two predecessors, the new Venom eschews the smirky grandstanding style of the mainline Marvel films that arguably made them the definitive millennial franchise. Instead, it’s a yammeringly moronic, teenage-boy-pandering eyesore of the old school, with little to offer any viewer whose age or counting ability exceeds the low 20s.

The Telegraph London