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Spider-Man: No Way Home

100 Movies of 2021

2021

Jon Watts

Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfred Molina ...

7.0

29,833

Fantasy. Action. Sci-Fi For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange, the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

Re-release (extended version): september 2022

	Media	Author	Review
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Slow-starting but eventually innovative, exciting, funny and heart-tugging (...) Holland remains the best of the cinematic Spider-Men (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"It's a quintessential Spider-Man film that pays homage to the past, checks off all the necessary Marvel boxes and still manages to spin together something refreshing (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"[A] gargantuan and deeply satisfying [film] in which the former Billy Elliot proves he’s more than a teen idol with a perfect American accent (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Dan Jolin Empire	"A monumentally successful Spider-instalment (...) At the risk of getting cheesy, it won't just make you cheer, it'll make you want to hug your friends, too (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The most satisfying Marvel instalment in quite some time, eventually conjuring the grandeur and emotional impact that the series used to deliver on a more regular basis"
		Brian Lowry CNN	"[It] impressively lives up to the hype, delivering the kind of unabashed big-screen fun for which theaters have been hungering"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"This is the least fun of the Watts/Holland pictures by a wide margin (...) but it’s a hell of a lot better than the last Spidey threequel, Sam Raimi’s overstuffed and ill-conceived 'Spider-Man 3'."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"[Watts] wrangles the unwieldy premise into a consistently entertaining superhero entry, tying up two decades’ of loose ends in the process."
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"The script is more coherent than it could have been given the many moving parts and is not quite as overstuffed as say 'Civil War' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"The most exciting, surprising and emotional Spidey of them all (...) This movie does what the best movies always do: They thrill you and move you and make you want to cheer in a crowded theatre"
		Scott Mendelson Forbes	"[It] is the very definition of the sum being less than its parts (...) While surface-level entertaining and often amusing, the film repeats some of the mistakes of the previous MCU movies"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Satisfying, emotional, and occasionally unsteady (...) The film zips through its first act, starts to slow down in its second, and completely nails the whole damn thing by its eye-popping final forty minutes."
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"'No Way Home' is a perfectly fine superhero movie. It has a couple of great set pieces (...) But when the movie decides to detour into cracked, buddy-comedy territory — that’s when the fun begins"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Like almost every Marvel production, this one is too long and, at two and a half hours, overstays its welcome. But before that, the movie nicely snaps and pops."
		Helen O'Hara Time Out	"The concept just works –brilliantly (...) There's a lot of plot in this film, and some is garbled and muddy, but it nails its emotional beats (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"[It] is pleasurable in spots, and certainly has some laughs and even entertaining thrills, but definitely suffers from lots of issues, one of them being there are very few surprises"
		Vinnie Mancuso Collider	"[It] lives and dies on its surprises (...) It's all thrilling in the same way the sudden drop on a roller-coaster makes your stomach flutter, brief and weightless"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"The superhero stuff is tons of fun, make no mistake. Editors [Jeffrey Ford and Leigh Folsom Boyd] keep the battle sequences lucid and fluid"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"Perhaps what makes the film so much fun and engaging is that there’s a balance — the lighthearted tone gives way to more emotionally heavy moments, but it always swings back without being jarring (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Watts handles this grand convergence of properties old and current with enough verve to almost sustain the long run of the film. But (...) much of the bounce and sparkle of the past two Holland films is lost"
		Amelia Emberwing IGN	"[It] hits all the right notes as the MCU's latest entry. Its impact on the universe as a whole, as well as the overall emotional beats, all feel earned."
		Don Kaye Den of Geek	"Tom Holland gives his most heartfelt performance as Peter Parker yet (...) This feels like Watts’ more assured outing in the MCU so far (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jake Cole Slant	"The film is pure fan service (...) [It] spends just as much time laying the groundwork for future movies in a way that undercuts the feeling of being present for a genuinely somber denouement (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"Nimble, spry, and surprisingly resilient in its emotional strength, 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' hits its targets, again and again, defying typical teen blues to create a movie for adults"
		Jake Kring-Schreifels The Film Stage	"It's a tall order to establish another unique variation to a character that both Maguire and Garfield have previously inhabited in charming, equally anguished ways (...) As another director remarked, 'let's be happy about that'"
		Peter Travers ABC News	"Tom Holland is better than ever in this thrill-a-minute whirlwind (...) Despite the teachable moments, there's a big-swing of an ending that packs an emotional punch you don't see coming (...) I'm happily hooked for next time"
		Witney Seibold SlashFilm	"For all the flash and multiverse gimmickry in 'No Way Home', it stands best when it's stating its moral point of view. And, refreshingly, it's incredibly responsible. That's what makes it powerful"
		Louie Fecou Ready Steady Cut	"A fan-pleasing, fast-paced superhero romp that manages to do almost everything right —almost (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"It's safer maybe just to say that what seems at first like pure fan service turns out to be some of the best and by far the most meta stuff Marvel has done, tender and funny and a little bit devastating"

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