Around two months have passed, and that means we’re overdue for our bi-monthly Marvel Cinematic Universe check-in. Okay, I kid. Our next film after Spider-Man: Far From Home won’t be for a good while, but that doesn’t change the fact that the film was released within spitting distance of Avengers: Endgame. And, of course, that wasn’t at all by accident, as this movie really picks up where Endgame left off.

If Endgame is the climax of a story, Spider-Man: Far From Home is the denouement, where all the various threads are wrapped up. But how does the film fare as its own story? Critics have had a chance to screen the film, and the embargo lifted this morning, and as of this writing, it has a solid 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Here’s what some of the positive reviews have to say:

TheWrap:

“In a year that’s only half-done, audience members would be forgiven for having superhero fatigue after Captain Marvel, Shazam! and Avengers: Endgame. (It’s almost welcome news that we aren’t getting the next MCU movie until 2020.) But with a focus on character-based comedy, coming-of-age anxieties, and super-battles that exist in very specific geographical locations, returning writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers and director Jon Watts have carved out a space for Spider-Man that feels uniquely breezy and charming while still fitting the larger structure of the Marvel movies.”

The Chicago Tribune:

“How’s the new movie? It’s good. It’s fun. It goes out of its way to salute the visual effects armies that have made the MCU what it is today, for better or worse. I can’t say any more about that. It’d be a spoiler.”

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NPR:

“Would it be better if it were 15 minutes tighter? Yep. Would it be more welcome if it had arrived two years post-Endgame instead of two months? For certain. But the movie has a bunch of winning performances from 22-year-olds still credibly playing 16, it tells a complete-ish yarn while dutifully laying track for further sequels, and it shows more visual brio than your average Marvel joint.”

EW:

“I wound up liking Far From Home more than any Spider-Man film this decade. There’s something eerie in the constant assertion of Tony Stark as Tycoon SuperJesus — but don’t underestimate the shifty layers the final act. The hero worship has a slippery quality here, with a less cheerful purpose than the sincere devotion of Homecoming or Into the Spider-Verse. The teen characters really are a blast, even if one key person skips a whole movie of development between scenes. Some digital effects look good in a boring way, and then some digital effects look bad in a perfect way. “Is this real?” asks Spider-Man. In the end, I really didn’t know. Far From Home succeeds with an unusual, troubling virtue: The best parts are the most fake.”

But not all reviews were positive. A few seem less than enthused from what they felt was more of a film made by a corporation than actual art (no, duh), and some, like the one from The New York Post, simply felt the film was trying (and failing) to capture the magic of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

“…you can see director Jon Watts and the filmmakers struggling to replicate the magic of their first film. But its charm came not from an overabundance of jokes, but from turning Spidey into a school hallway hero whose biggest challenge was girls. Jetting off to Venice, Prague and London and busting up landmarks brings it more in line with the rest of the overly dense Marvel Cinematic Universe.”

So, what do you think? Does any of this change your mind about seeing the movie? Let us know down below!

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