‘Morbius’ Review: Jared Leto Confounds in Vampire Superhero Film That Sucks More Than Just Blood

The Spider-Verse was already growing unwieldy long before the concept of the multiverse was so forcefully injected into the adventures of Peter Parker (and Peter Parker and Peter Parker) in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (a Sony film).

Before that, it was bandied about in the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe (a Disney franchise), hinted at in “Into the Spider-Verse” (Sony), nodded to in the “Venom” films (Sony), and mined for still more material in the various Marvel television series.

It’s enough to make anyone’s head spin, and that’s even with the generous help of the internet itself, rife with Wikipedia pages and explainers and timelines galore.Now the Spider-Verse again expands, thanks to Sony’s long-delayed “Morbius,” ostensibly a Spidey spin-off set in a universe where Spider-Man doesn’t exist, but human-created vampirism does.

Sure! DC may have long ago laid claim to the concept of a bat/man,

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