Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) poster
2023 · animation · action · superhero

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Directed by Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Joaquim Dos Santos2h 20m2023
ElsewhereIMDb8.5510kRT95%Metacritic86TMDB8.39k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • inventive
  • tender
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action · superhero entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want jaw-dropping animation, multiverse ideas, and Miles finding his path.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 5/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightSkip if you need a finished story tonight or flashing visuals trigger migraines.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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