Spider-Man, Spider-Man – does whatever a standard, male-centric, male-made movie can. Again.

People often ask why I’m not a Spider-Man fan, despite being a fan of the superhero genre in general. My answer is actually given voice in this movie, as one character refers to Peter Parker as a hormonal school boy – which is exactly the point. He is a perpetual hormonal school boy and, while I understand actual hormonal school boys respond to the character and identify with him – hence his immense popularity – it is the same thing every time he appears on the big screen, and thus he joins the countless other stories about hormonal school boys in...

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