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.

So there’s this alien symbiote, see, who makes its way to Earth and ends up being studied alongside several other specimens in a lab. A muckraking reporter named Eddie Brock is trying to expose the ...