Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Traveling across the multiverse, Miles Morales meets a new team of Spider-People, made up of heroes from different dimensions. But when the heroes clash over how to deal with a new threat, Miles finds himself at a crossroads.
Tanalien reviewedJanuary 9, 2025
Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse is the ultimate kids movie. This film does not spoon-feed the details; to catch them, it encourages participating in the movie by meeting the audience half-way through its animation, which deserves to be picked apart frame-by-frame. Many times, you have to dig through each shot and assemble the pieces to learn what a character is thinking and how they are feeling - in ways that live-action films cannot replicate.
With one of the most original movie scores since 2022’s The Batman, full character themes that act upon each other, and a sonic intensity that captures the moment, composer Daniel Pemberton has crafted the best score in recent memory. Every voice actor brings their A-game. Best-in-class animation, voice acting, and writing help bring the audience into a world with such clarity that we must surrender ourselves to the picture. This film is a great cultural service because it is teaching our future moviegoers how to watch movies.