Category: Directed by Jon Watts
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Spider-Man: No Way Home’s got a very appropriate title. There’s just no way to bring this one home, not for any of the things it tries to do. Though “tries” might be stretching it, No Way Home’s script feels like it’s four different ideas strung together with plot points dependent on the latest Academy Award-nominated…
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“All-new short film” is actually an uncut montage sequence from SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME. A perfectly entertaining three minutes thanks to Tom Holland and company, but so lazy it doesn’t even have opening or closing credits. DVD, Blu-ray.Continue reading →
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Fun, funny sequel has Spider-Man Tom Holland touring Europe on a class trip (leaving his Spidey suit at home) and trying to recover from AVENGERS: ENDGAME. He’s also wooing crush Zendaya and avoiding Sam Jackson’s pleas for help in battling giant monsters. Great anchoring performance from Holland. Loads of other good stuff… just not the…
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Excellent solo outing for Spider-Man Tom Holland (after first appearing in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR). He’s just a modern high schooler trying to survive debate club and homecoming date woes while playing superhero after school superhero. He wants to do more, of course, much to guest star Robert Downey Jr.’s dismay. Watts’s direction has a…
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