Running time: 109 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, bloody images and strong language). In theaters Friday. So long, “Venom.” Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

With the exception of James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy" trilogy, few Marvel-based superhero films of recent memory have cultivated the wicked charm, gallows humor, and delirious fun as the three ...