Spider-Man: No Way Home Is a Very Tangled Web

To anyone who’s exclaimed in the last ten or so years something like, “Another Spider-Man movie??,” the new film Spider-Man: No Way Home (in theaters December 17) has a pithy reply. It triples down on the Spider-Man movie mythos, synthesizing Tom Holland’s third outing in the red and blue wetsuit with characters from two Spider-Man franchises past. It’s a nervy device that could only have worked in these times of comic-book oversaturation, using Hollywood’s troubling repetitiveness to curious, if slight, advantage. In yoking Sam Raimi’s early 2000s trilogy and the oft-maligned Marc Webb pair of adventures from the early 2010s… Read Full Article