Editor’s Note: The following contains light spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Does the world need even more Spider-Man movies? There have now been a grand total of 10 mainline Spider-Man films since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and we just got through Spider-Man: No Way Home, which advertised itself as a love letter to all things Spider-Man, but ultimately became more of a self-congratulatory pat on the back for Marvel’s cinematic success and a redemption tour for Andrew Garfield.
Even before No Way Home, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse served as the movie No Way Home wishes it could have been (and did it three years earlier): a stirring maximalist love letter to all things Spider-Man, beyond the movies and delving into even the most obscure comic and television references you could possibly imagine.
At the time, it was considered maybe the best Spider-Man film ever made, among the best superhero films ever made,…
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