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    'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Finds Its Footing With A Less Confident Spidey

    Spider-Man: Homecoming may be the sixth big-screen, big-budget Spider-Man movie of the 21st century, but a charming lead and a respect for the character's youth could give the franchise new, um, legs.
    by Chris Klimek Jul 06, 2017 4 minutes
    Tom Holland stars as Spider-Man in <em>Spider-Man: Homecoming.</em>

    At last: A Spider-Man movie!

    ...says no one. The new Spider-Man: Homecoming, which celebrates Peter Parker's immigration to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a headliner after his scene-stealing appearance in Captain America: Civil War last year, is, according to the most recent data available, the sixth big-screen Spidey flick since 2002. Who needs another?

    Well, if they're going to be as fizzy and funny and warmhearted as this, keep 'em coming.

    A half-dozen features in 15 years isn't an especially Spider Sense-stimulating tally, especially for a blue chip specimen of IP like 'ol Web-Head, the most singular and beloved of all Marvel Comics heroes. [.] Any sense of fatigue

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