Every Spider-Man movie, ranked

polygon.com:

Will there ever be another live-action Spider-Man movie? Oh, almost certainly. But it’s also safe to say that the cinematic adventures of the wall-crawler have come to a certain pause. A nice button. An exhaled breath.

And in that exhale, there’s room for evaluation. And while it may be only because of one studio’s absolute reluctance to give up the film rights to a multibillion dollar character, it’s still remarkable to have had 11 entire theatrically released films featuring a single comic book character over a mere two decades.

And, yeah, Spider-Man: No Way Home put every live-action franchise’s Spider-Man in the same room to bounce off each other — it’s practically begging the comparison.

So, what is the best theatrically released movie with Spider-Man in it? Polygon’s staff writers sat down to figure it out.

Early in the process, a strong push was made to include Captain America: Civil War as a movie with its own take on Spider-Man. And if you’re going to include a movie that had Spider-Man but wasn’t really about him, you have to include all the movies that had Spider-Man but weren’t really about him. But it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame are at the bottom of this list.

Civil War might boast a fun and fresh introduction to Spider-Man, but Infinity War and Endgame’s packed runtimes barely have the time for Peter to do anything but blip into dust, traumatize Tony Stark, and serve as a football in a contrived girl power moment.

On the other hand, Infinity War does let Peter do this unforgettable drag of Doctor Strange. —Susana Polo

Let’s start with what this movie does well. For one, it is beautiful. The film is brimming with light and color, supercharged with a