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    <em>Venom </em>Is the Strangest Romantic Comedy of the Year

    The ostensible superhero film thrives when it focuses on Tom Hardy’s relationship with a ball of alien goo.
    by David Sims Oct 05, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Sony / Columbia

    It takes a frustratingly long time for the title character of to speak. The first 45 minutes of Ruben Fleischer’s film tell a straightforward superhero origin story (despite the poster’s angry proclamation that “”). Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is an investigative journalist in San Francisco asking probing questions about the preening space-tech CEO Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed). The reporter’s quest to uncover shady dealings eventually costs him his job and ruins his relationship with his fiancée, Anne Weying (Michelle Williams). So,

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