Can the Gritty ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Save the Superhero Movie?

The newest entry in the franchise took a more grounded approach, a departure for a spectacle-focused genre that is teetering at the box office.

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Review: The First Superhero Movie That Made Me Feel Something In A Very Long Time  Forbes

Just weeks after "Supergirl" underperformed at the box office, the ninth live-action Spider-Man film since 2002 is expected to premiere with a projected global opening of as much as $465 million. Marlow Stern, chief correspondent at Variety, joins CBS News to discuss.

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Peter Parker’s isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling.

5 min readJul 30, 2026 02:47 PM IST Spider-Man Brand New Day movie review: The film stars Tom Holland and Zendaya in the lead roles.It’s the seventh film Tom Holland is in as Spider-Man, the fourth as a solo superhero. And while the 30-year-old actor who began this a decade ago can still pass as just-past-teens, the Ma

With its grounded approach and mature storytelling, Spider-Man: Brand New Day shows that it’s still possible to put the right spin on the web-slinger without resorting to multiversal theatrics.

Tom Holland's return as a now-anonymous Peter Parker isn't the igniting spark Marvel needs to revive its cinematic universe.

The film is set to earn more than $35 million on its first day in China, with local analysts projecting a full-run total as massive as $250 million.

Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” like more of a native New Yorker than before?

Superhero fatigue is no match for Peter Parker. Sure, comic book movies have been on the fritz. But Marvel’s friendly neighborhood web-slinger is about to change the narrative, with Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” swinging to a truly heroic box office debut. Estimates are ranging from $260 million to $280 million fr

This Marvel movie is superior to most, with pleasing performances despite the excessively busy plot mechanics the MCU has come to be known for.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day reviews have praised Tom Holland and Zendaya for saving the film and offering the franchise a needed reset.The upcoming film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has been met with mostly positive reviews ahead of its anticipated release.The film sees Holland reprise his role as the endeari

Spider-Man: Brand New Day reviews have praised Tom Holland and Zendaya for saving the film and offering the franchise a needed reset.The upcoming film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has been met with mostly positive reviews ahead of its anticipated release.The film sees Holland reprise his role as the endeari

Spider-Man: Brand New Day review — Tom Holland saves Marvel from disaster  The Times

Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate Just a few weeks ago, Tom Holland was telling us that his role as Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey was his “last chance to play a boy”. Well, Holland is back as the suppos

'Brand New Day' is Tom Holland's grownup Spider-Man movie – Review  USA Today

Following the triple home run act of the Jon Watts/Tom Holland era of Spider-Man movies, 2017’s Homecoming, 2019’s Far From Home, and 2021’s No Way Home, would seem quite daunting on the surface of it. And coming back with a movie that has anywhere near the impact of No Way Home’s untoppable uniting of Tobey…

Jay Maidment Spider-Man: Brand New Day is about wrestling the monsters within. And though that might sound like an apt topic given the tumultuous state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with its waning pop-culture supremacy, the same can’t be said for the Sony-produced web-slinger series, whose quality has increased wi