Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a landmark in animation. Its cinematography is genuinely revolutionary — a comic-book visual language translated into motion with Ben-Day dots, split panels, and onomatopoeia rendered as physical objects, unlike anything before it. The plot is a tight, emotionally resonant origin story layered with multiverse mythology that earns its complexity without losing the personal stakes of Miles's journey. Novelty is off the charts: the film perfects AND reinvents its form simultaneously, blending styles (anime, noir, Looney Tunes absurdism) into a wholly singular aesthetic. The ending is a cathartic, visually spectacular payoff that delivers on every emotional thread. Acting is strong across the board with a committed voice cast, though it doesn't quite reach the transcendent level of the other categories — a slight step below the film's otherwise exceptional craft.