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June 2, 2023

The giddy splendor of ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse'

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

Let's get this upfront: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was the best comic-book film of the last decade.

With an animation blizzard blown straight in from the pages of comics, “Into the Spider-Verse” took a supercollider to all the conventions of the superhero movie. Solemnity was out. Gone, too, was the idea of a chosen one. Spider-Man could be anyone, including a graffiti-tagging kid from Brooklyn, including a pig named Spider-Ham. The possibilities of the comic book movie were suddenly limitless. With Post Malone and Swae Lee's “Sunflower” thumping, the vibes were, as they say, immaculate.


 
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