Madame Web (2024)

A little-known Marvel superhero takes center stage in ‘Madame Web’. A half-hearted stab at female empowerment can’t save ‘Madame Web’ from getting tangled in a boring, contrived story that twists Marvel mythology around.

Just when you thought the “Sony Spider-Man Universe” (as the Sony Pictures cinematic pool of movies starring Spider-Man villains and minor characters has come to be known) couldn’t get any sillier and more generic than ‘Morbius,’ now ‘Madame Web’ comes along to say “hold my beer.” Despite a promising cast and director, ‘Madame Web’ – based on a little-known yet powerful psychic in the Marvel canon – ends up deadly dull.