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Venom review: ‘it’s not Marvel-lous’

This is the Last Dance of his three-deal franchise and I suspect Tom Hardy is feeling rather relieved

October 31, 2024 15:54
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Venom: The Last Dance

15 | ★★✩✩✩

There are some franchises where watching for signs that the star is counting the seconds to the end of their contract is half the fun. We looked for jadedness in Daniel Craig’s final flourish as 007, didn’t we? And have you ever wondered if Vanessa Kirby, who I have seen make Chekhov feel like a new discovery, is fully invested as Mission Impossible’s thinking masochist’s femme fatale White Widow, a role that was fun at the beginning but which one imagines now feels like a squandering of precious talent the more time she spends there. A bit like being in Vegas for too long.

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