Madame Web (2024)

So Madame Web is not as bad any everyone is saying. It's a perfectly coherent superhero origin story that is never boring and is about as good as most movies of the genre. Johnson is actually quite good and it's too bad that we likely won't see more of the Spider-Women that the movie sets up for future movies that now won't happen due to the overwhelmingly negative response to a perfectly fine movie. 

I'm not saying Madame Web is great. It never quite transcends in a way that a movie like, say Blue Beetle, does managing to tap into some deeper themes about our real world. But as far as the costumed hero genre goes one could do worse... and we have. 

Madame Web

Starring: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott

Director: S. J. Clarkson

Writers: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker, S. J. Clarkson