Spider-Man Critic Reviews

Spider-Man, while hardly immune to these vices, is, like Mr. Maguire, disarmingly likable, and touching in unexpected ways.Read the full review

This is a star-making performance, as fresh and funny as Christopher Reeve's in Superman (1978).Read the full review

With disarmingly entertaining movies like this, dare I say, who needs big bad superhero movies?Read the full review

This is a pure popcorn movie -- the kind of film one can unabashedly enjoy for what it is. There's plenty of visual flash and dizzying action, but not at the expense of the other qualities that make for a complete motion picture experience.Read the full review

Every action adventure needs a memorable villain, but no movie needs the strident intensity of Mr. Dafoe, who either has no interest in, or no grasp of, the sort of charmingly malign wit that Gene Hackman brought to "Superman," or Jack Nicholson to "Batman."Read the full review

Spider-Man may look like an action comic come to life, but its best feature is its romance comic heart. It's that rare cartoon movie in which the villain is less involving than the love story.Read the full review

The superhero part of the movie will leave audiences with a flat feeling, thanks to computery-looking special effects and a sagging story line.Read the full review

This is a rare twisted crowd-pleaser for longtime fans as well as novices -- or for those that don't know an arachnid from an insect.Read the full review

A canny franchise escapade; it gets the job done. But it also leaves you hungry for something more, and I don't necessarily mean the next episode.Read the full review