Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

It’s smart stuff, leaps and bounds beyond Marvel’s snarky hegemony...

Tempts you to think Spider-Man was always meant to be animated.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse boldly throws out any restraint and leans full-tilt into the zaniness of its visually and thematically kaleidoscopic world.

Animated Spider-Man sequel is worth the price of admission in this four-star movie.

Extraordinary animation and muscular transformations make the continuing Spidey saga(s) of Brooklyn teen Miles Morales and his family, friends and foes even more of a marvel.

It might be hyperbole to say that this state-of-the art animation is about as genius as it gets for the genre. But for kids, teens and twentysomethings, raised on MTV, comic books and TikTok, that isn’t an overstatement. It’s their truth.

It’s a unique, singular masterwork that defies expectation.

Just like its predecessor.

Superhero films suffer significantly from the law of diminishing returns as sequels strain to be better than their predecessors. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse stands out as the antithesis of this notion...

One of the most artful and entertaining films of 2023, advancing the craft of animation in ways few have done previously.

Across The Spider-Verse truly explodes the idea of what a comic book movie can be. This is thanks to the boundlessly exuberant and adventurous way it both constructs and captures its world(s) during this jaunt through the multiverse.