Spider-Man: Homecoming

Spider-Man: Homecoming is a minor Marvel miracle.

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After the grand-scale conflict of Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man goes back to basics as a hometown hero.

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Marvel’s web-slinging series comes of age.

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The high school hero’s third big-screen incarnation is a crowd-pleasing triumph: a whip-smart teen movie with a charming central turn from Tom Holland.

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After the euphoria of his airport tussle with the Avengers, Peter Parker (Holland) returns to his mundane New York life. He craves excitement — and when he crosses paths with arms dealer the Vulture (Keaton), he gets it.

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It may not quite reach the heights of Raimi's Spider-Man 2, but Spider-Man: Homecoming emerges as one of the character's strongest films to date, granting him a clean slate and infinite room to grow.

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Homecoming sends Spider-Man back to school and revives his appeal.

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That said, I can report from where I sat at a preview screening that was evenly divided between what I suspect were sympathetic-from-the-get-go reviewers and enthusiastic fans and their families, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is a comprehensively crowd-pleasing success.

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While many will trip over themselves to declare in futility that “Spider-Man: Homecoming is the best Spider-Man since Spider-Man 2,” this third iteration of the superhero is still missing the emotion and all-around spark that Sam Raimi brought.

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Latest take on the iconic superhero comes out swinging – and brings teen heart and soul to your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

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It's the non-superhero elements of Spider-Man: Homecoming that make it a great movie, and a non-stop fun summer flick. There isn't an ounce of fat on this film, packing in so many story elements and characters, while finding room for small, funny asides and moments that make it an addictively rich, idiosyncratic and re-watchable movie.

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The film, for much of the first two acts, takes itself just about that unseriously, maintaining a jokey, self-aware tone that is nicely evocative of the original comics.

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The Vulture is a mess of prickly contradictions, only some of which seem intentional. His criminality, rage and perhaps his madness have been stoked by class resentment and Mr. Keaton, with his white-hot menace and narrowing eyes, makes him a memorably angry man, not a caricature.

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Ultimately pleasurable if very disposable, ‘Homecoming’ offers strong teen dynamics and, for once, serves up high-school sized stakes instead of placing the planet in peril.

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Tom Holland and Michael Keaton are standouts in this funnier, more teen-oriented take on the trials of Peter Parker.

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The movie around him is sometimes glancingly light. Other times it works way too aggressively at being entertainment, rather than just breathing. But Holland, as both Parker and Spidey, is always fun to watch: His bumbling uncertainty and his boyish eagerness make him believable not just as a crime fighter but as a kid.

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By partially demonstrating what a fresher superhero movie might look like, it underlines its genre-defined limitations.

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As villain du jour, Michael Keaton brings a gravelly, working-man panache to the role of high-flying baddie the Vulture.

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Tom Holland plays Peter Parker as Marvel's first YA superhero. That's the novelty, and limitation, of this mildly diverting reboot.

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Tom Holland plays the beloved webslinger in his first full adventure in Marvel's Cinematic Universe.

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The web-slinger's gizmo-heavy John Hughes homage is too cobwebby for comfort.

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