Spiderman 1-10 -

As we prepare for the soft-reboot Spider-Man 11: Home Before Dark , let’s look back at the beautiful, baffling journey of Peter Parker 1 through 10.

It has been twenty years since Tobey Maguire first caught that tray of cafeteria food, and in that time, Hollywood has done what Hollywood does best: milked the radioactive spider for every last drop of web-fluid. We are now somehow living in a timeline where there are ten mainline Spider-Man movies. Not ten good ones. Ten of them. Spiderman 1-10

The Fan Service Nuke The multiverse opens. Tobey is back. Andrew is back. They hug. They point at each other. Doc Ock says "Hello, Peter." Willem Dafoe punches a wall. This movie has no plot, only nostalgia. And it works. You will weep when the three Spider-Men swing together. You will cheer when Matt Murdock catches a brick. This is theme park cinema, and it’s glorious. As we prepare for the soft-reboot Spider-Man 11: