This is Ferris Bueller's Day Off but with Spiderman.

| Sep 9, 2024

What makes this homecoming fun is [Tom] Holland, who seems as excited about Spider-Man as his classmates even though he is Spider-Man.

| Aug 17, 2017

If "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is to be judged solely on its ability to unite a diverse audience behind a fun motion picture, it seems to have succeeded wildly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2017

A strangely oblivious film, one that undercuts its story with exactly the sort of praise-hungriness that its hero learns to overcome.

| Jul 17, 2017

This is a charming, funny, coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old, Peter Parker, who has more power than he can handle and at the same time is frustrated that he can't show it off.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 14, 2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming is a sublime coming out party for the teenage wall-crawler.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2017

The youthful vibe of this character reset, with its sense of humor and its light touch, makes Spider-Man: Homecoming one of the most enjoyable Marvel movies in years.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 14, 2017

Director Jon Watts has learned from his predecessors that the huge set-piece scenes only work with Spider-Man if there's a character point being made.

| Original Score: 7 | Jul 14, 2017

A film that smuggles in a delightfully dorky high school saga under the banner of a too familiar superhero one.

| Jul 13, 2017

This is the Spidey movie we've been waiting for. It's also the best Spider-Man movie of the bunch.

| Jul 13, 2017

So yeah, I liked Spider-Man: Homecoming. I laughed during the funny parts, felt moved during the moving parts, and got excited during the exciting parts. And that Tom Holland -- he seems like a good kid.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming is the perfect superhero flick for millennials (or anyone who lives for a really good movie). Like Peter Parker, we're all just trying to figure things out.

| Jul 11, 2017

The chorus of advance raves has declared that Watts has hit the sweet spot. I'd call it sweet-and-sour.

| Jul 11, 2017

An utter gas, a fast and very funny superflick that inserts Spidey into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe without ever losing sight of what makes him unique and beloved.

| Jul 10, 2017

Part superhero movie, part high-school coming-of-age story, it's bouncy, likable and completely devoid of threat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2017

What are the odds that a film with six credited screenwriters and a director (Jon Watts) with more Onion content than anything else could recapture the youthful thrill of superhero movies in general and the youthful appeal of Spider-Man in particular?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2017

By partially demonstrating what a newer, fresher superhero movie might look like, Homecoming ultimately underlines its own genre-defined limitations.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 7, 2017

Holland probably has five more years in which to dazzle us, and it'll be a crime if Batalon and Zendaya aren't by his side. This franchise is now all about Peter and his friends. Here's looking at you, kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2017

Watts and his five other screenwriters are better at the small stuff - the jaunty high school scenes - than the kapowie CGI battle sequences.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2017

Holland is immensely appealing, young but already very much a hero. My spidey-sense tells me he's just right for the job.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 6, 2017