Quartile rating: 8.5/10 · 1 rating
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a landmark in animation and superhero filmmaking. Its plot is densely layered, emotionally resonant, and thematically rich — exploring legacy, identity, and parental conflict with genuine depth. The voice acting is exceptional across the board, with Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld delivering career-best vocal performances. The cinematography and visual design are genuinely revolutionary — each Spider-universe has its own distinct art style, color palette, and animation technique, making this one of the most visually inventive films ever made. Its novelty is essentially unmatched in recent animation history, building on the already-groundbreaking first film while pushing far further. The one area that holds back a perfect score is the ending — as a deliberate cliffhanger mid-story conclusion, it is narratively incomplete by design, leaving audiences without resolution and functioning more as a prologue to Part 2 than a satisfying standalone film.