An opinion-splitting origin story single-handedly keeping a shared universe afloat goes on a streaming rampage

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If there’s one thing Sony can always be relied on to accomplish, it’s run any marketable property into the ground as soon as possible. While that hasn’t proven to be the case quite yet with the studio’s Spider-Man universe, it wouldn’t be hyperbolic to say that Venom is what’s keeping the entire superhero sandbox alive and kicking.

Ruben Fleischer’s origin story for Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock hardly caught much in the way of fire with critics, but the fact Rotten Tomatoes users saw fit to deem the Marvel Comics adaptation worthy of an 80 percent audience average makes a mockery of the notion that critics play any tangible part in determining what the general public chooses to spend their hard-earned money on.