Spider-Man: No Way Home
The best of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” reminded me why I used to love comic books, especially the ones about a boy named Peter Parker. There was a playful unpredictability to them that has often been missing from modern superhero movies, which feel so precisely calculated. Yes, of course, “No Way Home” is incredibly calculated, a way to make more headlines after killing off so many of its event characters in Phase 3, but it’s also a film that’s often bursting with creative joy.
Director Jon Watts and his team have delivered a true event movie, a double-sized crossover issue of a comic book that the young me would have waited in line to read first, excitedly turning every page with breathless anticipation of the next twist and turn. And yet they generally avoid getting weighed down by the expectations fans have for this film, somehow sidestepping the cluttered traps of other crowded part threes. “No Way Home” is crowded, but it’s also surprisingly spry, inventive, and just purely entertaining, leading to a final act that not only earns its emotions but pays off some of the ones you may have about this character that you forgot.
Note: I will very carefully avoid spoilers but stay offline until you see it because there are going to be landmines on social media.
“No Way Home” picks up immediately after the end of “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” with the sound of that film’s closing scene playing over the Marvel logo. Mysterio has revealed the identity of the man in the red tights, which means nothing will ever be the same for Peter Parker ( Tom Holland ). With an almost slapstick energy, “No Way Home” opens with a series of scenes about the pitfalls of super-fame, particularly how it impacts Peter’s girlfriend M.J. (Zendaya) and best bud Ned ( Jacob Batalon ). It reaches a peak when M.I.T. denies all three of them admission, citing the controversy about Peter’s identity and the roles his buddies played in his super-adventures.
Peter has a plan. The “wizard” he met when he saved half the population with The Avengers can cast a spell and make it all go away. So he asks Dr. Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) to make the world forget that Spider-Man is Peter Parker, which, of course, immediately backfires. He doesn’t want M.J. or Ned or Aunt May ( Marisa Tomei ) to forget everything they’ve been through together, and so the spell gets derailed in the middle of it. Strange barely gets it under control. And then Doc Ock ( Alfred Molina ) and the Green Goblin ( Willem Dafoe ) show up.
As the previews have revealed, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” weaves characters and mythology from the other cinematic iterations of this character into the universe of the current one, but I’m happy to report that it’s more than a casting gimmick. My concern going in was that this would merely be a case of “ Batman Forever ” or even “ Spider-Man 3 ,” where more was often the enemy of good. It’s not. The villains that return from the Sam Raimi and Marc Webb films don’t overcrowd the narrative as much as they speak to a theme that emerges in the film that ties this entire series back to the other ones. For a generation, the line about Spidey was “With great power comes great responsibility.” “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is about the modern Peter Parker learning what that means. (It also helps a great deal to have actors like Molina and Dafoe in villain roles again given how the lack of memorable villains has been a problem in the MCU.)
So many modern superhero movies have confronted what it means to be a superhero, but this is the first time it’s really been foregrounded in the current run of Peter Parker, which turns “No Way Home” into something of a graduation story. It’s the one in which Parker has to grow up and deal with not just the fame that comes with Spider-Man but how his decisions will have more impact than most kids planning to go to college. It asks some interesting questions about empathy as Peter is put in a position to basically try to save the men who tried to kill other multiverse iterations of him. And it playfully becomes a commentary on correcting mistakes of the past not just in the life of Holland’s Parker but those of characters (and even filmmakers) made long before he stepped into the role. “No way Home” is about the weight of heroic decisions. Even the right ones mean you may not be able to go home again.
Watts hasn’t gotten enough credit in his other two Spider-Man movies for his action and “No Way Home” should correct that. There are two major sequences—a stunner in a mirror dimension in which Spidey fights Strange, and the climactic one—but it’s also filled with expertly rendered minor action beats throughout. There’s a fluidity to the action here that’s underrated as Mauro Fiore ’s camera swoops and dives with Spider-Man. And the big final showdown doesn’t succumb to the common over-done hollowness of MCU climaxes because it has undeniable emotional weight. I also want to note that Michael Giacchino ’s score here is one of the best in the MCU, by far. It’s one of the few themes in the entire cinematic universe that feels heroic.
With so much to love about “No Way Home,” the only shame is that it’s not a bit more tightly presented. There’s no reason for this movie to be 148 minutes, especially given how much the first half has a habit of repeating its themes and plot points. Watts (and the MCU in general) has a habit of over-explaining things and there’s a sharper version of “No Way Home” that trusts its audience a bit more, allowing them to unpack the themes that these characters have a habit of explicitly stating. And, no offense to Batalon, turning Ned into a major character baffles me a bit. He always feels like a distraction from what really works here. On the other hand, this is the first of these three films that has allowed Zendaya and Holland’s chemistry to shine. In particular, she nails the emotional final beats of her character in a way that adds weight to a film that can feel a bit airy in terms of performance.
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” could have just been a greatest hits, a way to pull different projects into the same IP just because the producers can. Some will see it that way just on premise alone, but there’s more going on here than the previews would have you believe. It’s about what historic heroes and villains mean to us in the first place—why we care so much and what we consider a victory over evil. More than any movie in the MCU that I can remember, it made me want to dig out my old box of Spider-Man comic books. That’s a heroic accomplishment.
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Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico is the Managing Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist, The New York Times, and GQ, and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association.
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
- Zendaya as Michelle 'MJ' Jones
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange
- Jon Favreau as Harold 'Happy' Hogan
- Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
- Marisa Tomei as May Parker
- Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
- Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon / Electro
- Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
- Tony Revolori as Eugene 'Flash' Thompson
- Angourie Rice as Betty Brant
- Martin Starr as Mr. Harrington
- Hannibal Buress as Coach Wilson
- J.B. Smoove as Mr. Dell
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
- Benedict Wong as Wong
- Chris McKenna
- Erik Sommers
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- Mauro Fiore
- Michael Giacchino
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The 50 best movies of all time, according to critics
- Insider ranked the best films of all time, based on Metacritic scores.
- They include recent Oscar winners " Moonlight " and " Parasite " and classics like " The Godfather " and " Citizen Kane ."
To find out which films have been the most critically acclaimed over time, Insider turned to the reviews aggregator Metacritic for this ranking, which scores films by their composite critical reception.
The resulting list includes modern masterpieces like recent Oscar winners " Moonlight " and " Parasite " in contention with classics like " The Godfather " and " Citizen Kane ."
There's also, not surprisingly, a lot of Hitchcock.
This post has been updated. John Lynch contributed to a previous version of this post.
The 50 best movies of all time, according to critics:
50. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)
Critic score: 96/100
User score: 9.0/10
What critics said : "Gregg Toland captures the open spaces and big skies of rural America, while the normally conservative Ford puts forward a sympathetic but radical plea for workers' rights and freedom for the people." — Empire
49. "Ratatouille" (2007)
User score: 8.6/10
What critics said : "The subtle colors and textures of the food alone make Ratatouille a three-star Michelin evening." — Time
48. "Nashville" (1975)
User score: 8.8/10
What critics said : "One of the greatest American films of the '70s, Nashville remains Altman's crowning achievement." — Entertainment Weekly
47. "Killer of Sheep" (2007)
Critic score: 94/100
User score: 6.9
What critics said : "You have to be prepared to see a film like this, or able to relax and allow it to unfold. It doesn't come, as most films do, with built-in instructions about how to view it." — RogerEbert.com
46. "Manchester by the Sea" (2016)
Critic score: 96/100
User score: 8.2/10
What critics said : "Despite his draw to tragic subjects, Lonergan holds onto a sharp, dark, Irish sense of humor, and a feel for the absurd that comes out at the most unexpected times." — New York Daily News
45. "12 Years a Slave" (2013)
User score: 8.0/10
What critics said : "A work that, finally, asks a mainstream audience to confront the worst of what humanity can do to itself." — Boston Globe
44. "Rosemary's Baby" (1968)
User score: 8.2/10
What critics said : "The brilliance of the film comes more from Polanski's direction, and from a series of genuinely inspired performances, than from the original story." — Chicago Sun-Times
43. "12 Angry Men" (1957)
User score: 9.3/10
What critics said : "What really transforms the piece from a rather talky demonstration that a man is innocent until proven guilty, is the consistently taut, sweltering atmosphere, created largely by Boris Kaufman's excellent camerawork." — Time Out London
42. "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940)
User score: 8.6/10
What critics said : "The charm of the gimmick in Lubitsch's take (directing a script by Samuel Raphaelson, who had collaborated with the German-born filmmaker on comedies and melodramas alike) is passed over quickly in favor of studying both its effects on those involved, as well as the dynamics of the workplace at large." — Slant Magazine
41. "Summer of Soul" (2021)
User score: 7.0/10
What critics said : "The result is something akin to cinematic hypertext, and thanks to Thompson's steady hand, the brief but deep dives are richly rewarding." — Washington Post
40. "Ran" (1985)
User score: 8.5/10
What critics said : "The drama itself packs a powerful — and timeless — gut punch." Washington Post
39. "Parasite" (2019)
User score: 8.7/10
What critics said : " Parasite begins in exhilaration and ends in devastation, but the triumph of the movie is that it fully lives and breathes at every moment, even when you might find yourself struggling to exhale." — Los Angeles Times
38. "Roma" (2018)
User score: 7.8/10
What critics said : "Alfonso Cuarón has made yet another movie that will transport you to another time and place. You will feel like you're living it." — Uproxx
37. "Dumbo" (1941)
What critics said : "It's not only one of the best classic-era Disney features, but also one of the best animated films from any studio at any time." — AV Club
36. "American Graffiti" (1973)
Critic score: 97/100
What critics said : "This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like an incessant bass line in one of the rock-'n'-roll songs of the period." — Time
35. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941)
User score: 7.9/10
What critics said : "This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form." — Variety
34. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
Critic score: 97/100
What critics said : " Streetcar is always a wonderful screen drama and now, also, a study in film archaeology." — Austin Chronicle
33. "Battleship Potemkin" (1926)
What critics said : "If you are at all interested in the history of cinema, or the influence of 20th century politics on the medium, then this film is a must-see, although over an hour of Soviet propaganda is likely to test the patience of modern viewers." — BBC
32. "Psycho" (1960)
User score: 9.1/10
What critic said : "This is a first-rate mystery thriller, full of visual shocks and surprises which are heightened by the melodramatic realism of the production." — Hollywood Reporter
31. "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (2008)
What critics said : "This slice of celluloid dynamite comes from Romania, and what you see will floor you." — Rolling Stone
30. "Gone With The Wind" (1940)
User score: 8.5/10
What critics said : "The older it gets, and we with it, the more we're able to see in it. As few American films have, Gone With the Wind succeeds both as historical epic and as intimate drama." — Los Angeles Times
29. "Quo Vadis, Aida?" (2021)
User score: 8.3/10
What critics said : " Quo Vadis, Aida? re-creates history in the present tense, with a gut-clutching immediacy that Žbanić makes bearable through sheer formal restraint." — Los Angeles Times
28. "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964)
User score: 8.4/10
What critics said : "Baleful and brilliant, Dr. Strangelove; Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , will outrage a predictable percentage of the population and enthrall an even greater percentage." — Hollywood Reporter
27. "The Third Man" (1949)
Critic score: 95/100
What critics said : "The thing about Carol Reed's 1949 The Third Man was that no matter how many times I saw it over the years its magic never failed. Its sophisticated, world-weary glamour never lost its allure." — Newsweek
26. "My Left Foot" (1990)
What critics said : "That it features a brilliant performance by Daniel Day-Lewis and a fine supporting cast lifts it from mildly sentimental to excellent." — Variety
25. "The Wild Bunch" (1969)
User score: 8.1/10
What critics said : "The hard action, bracing wit and mournful grace of Peckinpah's cowboy classic shames every new movie around. It's a towering achievement that grows more riveting and resonant with the years." — Rolling Stone
24. "Jules and Jim" (1962)
User score: 7.1/10
What critics said : "The mood of the movie reflects the exuberance of youth and the wisdom of experience. New Wave gold." — Empire
23. "All About Eve" (1950)
Critic score: 98/100
What critics said : "ALL ABOUT EVE is the consummate backstage story, a film that holds a magnifying glass up to theatrical environs and exposes all the egos, tempers, conspiracies and backstage back-biting that make up the world of make-believe on Broadway." — TV Guide
22. "Rashomon" (1951)
Critic score: 98/100
What critics said : "Every element in the film, from the dense thicket of forest branches to master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa's deceptive framing and lighting design, is precisely calibrated to make the facts more difficult to discern." — AV Club
21. "Hoop Dreams" (1994)
What critics said : "A film like ' Hoop Dreams ' is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and make us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself." — Chicago Sun-Times
20. "North by Northwest" (1959)
What critics said : "A sublime classic." — Guardian
19. "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
What critics said : "If Some Like It Hot isn't the funniest movie ever made, you can't blame it for not trying. The first time you see Billy Wilder's 1959 farce, you might not believe that anything can make you laugh so hard for so long." — Salon
18. "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006)
What critics said : "Literally and figuratively marvelous, a rich, daring mix of fantasy and politics." — Village Voice
17. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
What critics said : "Mr. Huston has shaped a searching drama of the collision of civilization's vicious greeds with the instinct for self-preservation in an environment where all the barriers are down. And, by charting the moods of his prospectors after they have hit a vein of gold, he has done a superb illumination of basic characteristics in men." — New York Times
16. "The Lady Vanishes" (1938)
What critics said : "It's typical Hitchcock: taut, morbid, stylish, and determined to confound expectations all the way up to the final shot." — AV Club
15. "Au hasard Balthazar" (1966)
What critics said : "To see Au Hasard Balthazar is to understand the limits of religious literalism in movies — the limits, even, of movies themselves. Bresson pares everything away until all that's left are the things we do and the hole left by the things we could have done but didn't." — Boston Globe
14. "Touch of Evil" (1958)
Critic score: 99/100
What critics said : "A masterclass in tension, visual panache and B-movie excess." — Time Out
13. "Pinocchio" (1940)
What critics said : "Every element in Pinocchio shimmers with the energy of young artists reveling in their newly discovered powers of creation." — Los Angeles Times
12. "Intolerance" (1916)
What critics said : "The plunging and roving camera provides visceral thrills; ecstatic special effects capture the sacred (the Crucifixion) and the profane (combat in the Great War); a metaphysical framing device (starring Lillian Gish) raises human conflict to universal import; and Griffith's trademark closeups lend a quivering lip or a trembling hand the tragic grandeur of historical cataclysm." — New Yorker
11. "Moonlight" (2016)
What critics said : "Like Brokeback Mountain a decade ago, Moonlight is a piece of art that will transform lives long after it leaves theaters." — The Playlist
10. "City Lights" (1931)
What critics said : "There's dignity and folly to The Tramp in City Lights , and everything in between." — The Dissolve
9. "Singin' In The Rain" (1952)
Critic score: 99/100
What critics said : "Escapism raised to the level of art, Singin' In The Rain inventively satirizes the illusions of the filmmaking process while celebrating their life-affirming joy." — AV Club
8. "Notorious" (1946)
Critic score: 100/100
User score: 8.0/10
What critics said : "Love is a dark, corroded obsession in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, a black-velvet biocide brimming with notes of tabloid titillation, spy-versus-spy nonsense, and romance as rotten as a half-eaten Granny Smith left out in the summer sun." — Slant
7. "Vertigo" (1958)
What critics said : "The greatest sexual suspense drama ever made has come to be regarded by many Hitchcock admirers as his most accomplished film. It is certainly his most forlorn, and easily his most mesmerizing." — San Francisco Chronicle
6. "Three Colors: Red" (1994)
Critic score: 100/100
What critics said : "It is a film of much humanity and very far from smart European pap. But the external brilliance of its making does at times subvert its inner workings, as if its manufacture and its meaning were not quite in perfect harmony." — Guardian
5. "Boyhood" (2014)
User score: 7.6/10
What critics said : "On rare occasions a movie seems to channel the flow of real life. Boyhood is one of those occasions. In its ambition, which is matched by its execution, Richard Linklater's endearing epic is not only rare but unique." — Wall Street Journal
4. "Casablanca" (1943)
User score: 8.9/10
What critics said : "The dialogue is so spare and cynical it has not grown old-fashioned. Much of the emotional effect of Casablanca is achieved by indirection; as we leave the theater, we are absolutely convinced that the only thing keeping the world from going crazy is that the problems of three little people do after all amount to more than a hill of beans." — Chicago Sun-Times
3. "Rear Window" (1954)
What critics said : "There is never an instant, in fact, when Director Hitchcock is not in minute and masterly control of his material: script, camera, cutting, props, the handsome set constructed from his ideas, the stars he has Hitched to his vehicle." — Time
2. "Citizen Kane" (1941)
What critics said : "What's magical about Kane — the sheer transformative thrill of invention — is there in every shot, every performance, every narrative surge." — Entertainment Weekly
1. "The Godfather" (1972)
User score: 9.2/10
What critics said : " The Godfather traces the arc of this doomed idealism with a beauty that is still fresh." — LA Weekly
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For example, the first element is Plot, which contains two categories, Story Arc and Plausibility. The ten elements are: Plot (Story Arc and Plausibility) Attraction (Premise & Entertainment Value ...
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Do the Right Thing (1989)92%. Critics Consensus: Smart, vibrant, and urgent without being didactic, Do the Right Thing is one of Spike Lee's most fully realized efforts -- and one of the most important films of the 1980s. Synopsis: Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn.
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tipgriffin79. •. Metacritic objectively the most accurate. Assigns number score to each review, whereas RT is just an average of thumbs up thumbs down. So a movie that every critic thought was just ok will have 100% on RT, which is clearly misleading, while Metacritic would show a more accurate 60%. Reply reply.
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