Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) poster
2017 · action · superhero · adventure · comedy

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Directed by Jon Watts2h 13m2017
ElsewhereIMDb7.4795kRT92%Metacritic73TMDB7.323k
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • redemptive
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, measured action / superhero, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.

Our read · Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded action · superhero · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. 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 a fun, grounded teen Spider-Man juggling school and superhero life.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want dark standalone heroes or hate high-school comedy in superhero films.

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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