‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Review: Spidey Is Back

Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives in theaters days after the debut of the trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday. The trailer confirms that the movie contains heroes from at least three different fictional universes, and suggests that the fate of the entire Marvel multiverse hangs in the balance of the battle between Doctor Doom and the members of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men.One of the most pleasant surprises about Brand New Day is that it not only has nothing to do with any of that, it’s a surprisingly small-scale blockbuster about its title character. (Spidey got all of his multiversal drama out of his system with his last film, 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.) While Brand New Day is a little overcrowded with supporting characters — a couple of which feel like vestigial appendages from earlier script drafts where they probably made more sense — Brand New Day does understand, and remains laser-focused on, Spidey’s central appeal. Its main narrative is all about the same core dilemma at the heart of every great Spider-Man story: His internal struggle over his double life and how he can never reconcile what he wants to do with what he feels has to do.SonySonyREA...