Spider-Man: No Way Home review: Past continuous
Live MintIn the most basic sense, it asks you to spend your emotional capital from one realm in another. Spider-Man: No Way Home is co-produced by Marvel, maker of the last two solo films featuring the character, and Columbia, part of Sony, which made the five Spidey films before that. In allowing this trio to be easily overwhelmed by Peter, Jon Watts, director on this and the last two Spidey films, and writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, discover something worth mining. There’s a nod to Sony’s freewheeling animated Miles Morales film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, in the scene where Electro tells Peter that he was surprised that Spider-Man wasn’t a Black kid. Apart from a spiffy scene that borrows from Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange film, Watts can’t break from the bland, brightly lit MCU house style and their neat, forgettable action.