Movie #2 of 2024: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 2018’s surprise animated hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was always going to be a tough act to follow, and sure enough, this sequel suffers a bit by comparison while still being an above-average film in its own right. It’s funny! Just not quite as hilarious as …
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Movie #9 of 2022: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Crossovers are reliable crowd-pleasers that a ‘cinematic universe’ of joint continuity is custom-built to fulfill, and even outside of colossal team-up events in the main Avengers line, Marvel Studios has gotten good mileage in recent years out of sticking one superhero in another’s movie. So the …
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Movie #4 of 2022: Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Finally decided to rent this one, since I still hadn’t seen it and at this point it doesn’t seem as though it’ll ever make its way over to Disney+ with the rest of the MCU. It’s fun! The explosion-y climax goes on a bit long in …
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Movie #21 of 2018: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Believe the hype. I’ll freely admit I was reluctant to watch this movie, both because I shy away from animated superhero content in general and because what I knew of its premise — a crossover team-up of different versions of Spider-Man — seemed aimed at comic …
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Movie #10 of 2018: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) I missed this Marvel movie in theaters, in part because I didn’t see a whole lot of people talking about it. (And, honestly, because my fatigue over Spider-Man reboots had finally reached Batman levels.) As much as I liked Spidey in Captain America: Civil War and as happy …
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