‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ grounds Spidey — and much of the fun

Peter Parker (Tom Holland). Jay Maidment/CTMG

Jay Maidment/CTMG

The latest Marvel film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, is precisely what many moviegoers, and performatively pained movie critics, have been demanding for years now: a grounded, street-level take on superheroes that eschews cosmic crises and portals through spacetime to focus on human-scale, emotional elements.

Just how grounded is it, you ask? Put it this way: There is a character in this movie whose superpower gets depicted onscreen

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