‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Is a Masterpiece

Since 2002, there have been three live-action Spider-Man franchises, with a different actor playing the lead role of Peter Parker in each. The most recent of the eight live-action films even brought the three Peters together to share the big screen and embody the Spider-Man pointing meme. Add on two Venom entries, the meme that is Morbius, and one animated masterpiece, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and you have a lot of Spider-Man or Spider-adjacent trips to the movies over the past two decades. On top of all that, we’re currently living in the multiverse era of superhero films: The MCU’s current saga of movies and TV shows is named after this very concept of parallel universes, while DC Films is releasing its own multiverse blockbuster just two weeks from now.