Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)Movies

One piece of advice must have been on repeat inside the heads of the creators of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”: With great first film comes great responsibility.  Because the superb sequel to 2018’s surprise hit “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” not only lives up to its genre-enlivening and Oscar-winning predecessor -- it often surpasses it in terms of animated excellence.  A complex mix of ecstasy and frustration bubbled up when I realized that the first five minutes of this flick are more jolting and creative than any of the last ten Marvel movies. Easy. Directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson and writers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham web-swing to such high heights by treating Miles Morales, our Spidey, as a complicated...