We’ve rounded up all of Spidey’s big-screen adventures below to bring you the best Spider-Man movies ever, ranked from the worst to the greatest. That means we’ve got the Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland movies below, though we’re still waiting for Spider-Man: No Way Home to arrive…

To be clear, we’ve only included movies that are solely about Spider-Man on our list, so the likes of Civil War and Endgame are disqualified (even if they are very good). So, scroll on to check out the very best Spider-Man movies ever.

9. Amazing Spider-Man 2

Scraping the bottom of the Spidey barrel is Amazing Spider-Man 2, a movie that takes a solid (if unspectacular) prior movie and undoes all the goodwill built towards the rebooted series by making a flurry of baffling character choices.

Jamie Foxx’s Electro is played for laughs and, as such, never quite stacks up against Andrew Garfield’s webhead. Their showdown ultimately fizzles out into nothing more than an anti-climactic power struggle. 

The inclusion of the Green Goblin, meanwhile, does lead to Gwen Stacy’s heart-wrenching death. Yet Spidey’s nemesis never quite earns his place as a top-tier villain thanks to some rushed storytelling and a tendency for the script to skip over most of his motivations. Amazing Spider-Man 2 is instead content with a general hand-wave towards the Raimi trilogy, which made far better use of the source material.

8. Spider-Man 3

Where did it all go wrong? Spider-Man 3 (opens in new tab) should have seen Sam Raimi’s trilogy go out in a blaze of symbiotic glory. Instead, it reads a case study into how too many supervillains can spoil a previously finely-poised Big Apple broth.

Sandman, Venom, and James Franco’s Green Goblin all lack their own spotlight with the movie being far more concerned with hammering home Peter Parker’s internal conflict and dark suited shenanigans instead.

Yes, Tobey Maguire’s ill-fated emo phase on-screen is now played for laughs, but it’s proof that Spider-Man 3 doesn’t know what tone it should strike: it aims to be a goofball comedy, a character study about the fine line between good or evil, and an explosive end to a fantastic trilogy. It succeeds at none of those things.

7. Amazing Spider-Man

Despite Andrew Garfield’s best-in-class portrayal of Peter Parker, the first Amazing Spider-Man never quite soars to the heights of two-thirds of Rami’s trilogy. Garfield’s Parker fizzes with teenage angst opposite Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy, making for a refreshing change of pace after the MJ/Pete drama that muddled its way through all three of Raimi’s movie. Yet, it’s mired by an utterly forgettable villain in the shape of Rhys Ifans, who plays Curt Connors/The Lizard.

It’s not bad, but it’s not particularly good either. Amazing Spider-Man is about as much of a cookie-cutter, middle-of-the-road offering as you can get from Spidey. Understandably safe given the backlash to Spider-Man 3, though it’s far outclassed by the vast majority of its more stylish, swaggering peers.

6. Spider-Man: Far From Home

We’re getting into the good stuff. Spider-Man: Far From Home excels thanks to fresh new surroundings, plus Jake Gyllenhaal’s terrific performance as Mysterio. Director Jon Watts manages to stealthily introduce a genuinely funny European vacation movie into the MCU and have it masquerade as a superhero movie. It shouldn’t work, but it absolutely does. You end up caring more about certain periphery characters and, therefore, Peter’s duty to protect them. There’s even scope for some of the best use of CGI in the series. 

It doesn’t quite break free of the specter of RDJ, who still casts a long shadow over this movie post-Avengers: Endgame. Still, it’s a genuinely thrilling affair – and one that comes bundled with the best cliffhanger in MCU history.

5. Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home brings together three generations of Spider-Man movies, bringing villains from both Garfield’s and Maguire’s universes into the MCU through the power of the multiverse. The result is a movie that has incredible highs for Spider-Man fans, there being plenty of Spider-Man: No Way Home Easter eggs throughout, and while the plot is slightly ropey in places, the sheer charisma of Tom Holland holds everything together. 

No Way Home is also one of the more emotional Spider-Man movies – not always a blast of fun, but takes time to deliver some sadder moments that really see Peter Parker at his lowest. Plus, the ending sets Spider-Man on a new path, and one that could be incredibly exciting – read more about our spoiler-filled thoughts on the Spider-Man: No Way Home ending here.

4. Spider-Man: Homecoming

Tom Holland’s debut MCU standalone flick does away from the past ills of Garfield’s movies – it’s got an actually entertaining villain in Michael Keaton’s Vulture, for one thing – and delivers a breezy affair that easily convinced audiences that the franchise was in safe hands with Holland behind the mask.

Tony Stark makes for a meaningful surrogate Uncle Ben figure, and the high-school shenanigans of Peter, Ned, and MJ are fun, making Spider-Man: Homecoming a truly confident, assured effort. The highlight? It has to be Pete’s skin-crawlingly awkward night with Liz, all while her supervillain daddy tries to uncover her doting date’s secret identity.

3. Spider-Man

To understand the quality of Spider-Man, you have to take stock of what came before it. Prior to Tobey Maguire putting on the webbed suit, only X-Men and the original Batman could stake a claim to having put out a worthwhile superhero movie. Spider-Man blows them all out of the water.

It’s at once both funny and heartfelt, while also a gripping origin story. Plus, any movie that can feasibly introduce Randy Savage as a larger-than-life character (he played Spidey’s wrestling opponent Bonesaw McGraw) gets two big thumbs up. 

It set the template for years to come and, whisper it, the MCU still hasn’t created a dynamic as compelling as the ones between Maguire’s Peter Parker, Kirsten Dunst’s MJ, and the outstandingly cheesy Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin.

2. Spider-Man 2

For the longest time, Spider-Man 2 (opens in new tab) was the cream of the Spidey crop. And it’s easy to see why. The movie’s breakneck pace never slows, even when it has to factor in a Doc Ock origin story. Alfred Molina glowers and menaces his way through a thrilling final act that ranks right up there among the very best in action cinema.

It also features scenes that are still timeless today, such as when Peter loses his mask and is carried through a crowd or New Yorkers. Spider-Man 2 effectively juggles Parker’s own self-doubts, a brooding Harry Osborn, and a will they/won’t they relationship tug-of-war with MJ in a way that Spider-Man 3 could only dream of – all without missing a beat.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (opens in new tab) isn’t just the best Spider-Man movie. It’s cool. It’s daring. It’s essential. It’s a fashion statement for those who were told superhero movies were for sad acts and shut outs. It flaunts its minority status and wears it as a badge of pride like no other movie that has come before. And all while weaving in a wonderful story about what it means to grow up as an outsider.

Miles Morales has done the impossible and potentially usurped Peter Parker as the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. He’s delightfully awkward, but still carries with him a charm that makes him bounce off the other Spiders with complete ease. It helps that each Spider-Man from the multiverse gets a chance to shine – even Nic Cage – and the kinetic ground-breaking animation lends itself to an energetic, ensemble-led affair that never once lets up.

When the dust finally settles on the superhero craze, Into the Spider-Verse will be held up as one of the genre’s shining beacons. It’s a movie that has you smiling all the way through. That is if you’re not too busy bopping along to its tune-laden soundtrack and effortless sense of style.

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So, drum roll please: The Spider-Man: Far From Home runtime is 129 mins. That’s according to the British Board of Film Classification (opens in new tab) (H/T CBR (opens in new tab)). The length of a smidgen over 2 hours means it’s only longer than Doctor Strange (opens in new tab) (115 mins), Ant-Man and the Wasp (opens in new tab) (118 mins), and Captain Marvel (opens in new tab) (123 mins). There are seven longer Phase 3 movies that beat it out.

The Spider-Man: Far From Home runtime is actually on the briefer end of the scale, too, when stacked up against some of the other webhead’s flicks over the years. Of course, a movie’s length is not a mark of quality, but it’s worth noting it’s the shortest Spider-Man movie in 15 years.

• Spider-Man (2002) – 121 mins
• Spider-Man 2 – 127 mins
• Spider-Man 3 – 139 mins
• Amazing Spider-Man – 136 mins
• Amazing Spider-Man 2 – 142 mins
• Spider-Man: Homecoming – 133 mins

Of course, the 129 mins also includes the bombastic Marvel Studios intro, plus any and all credits (and attached scenes). You’re probably realistically looking at a first-scene-to-last-scene Spider-Man: Far From Home runtime of two hours when you cut out everything that isn’t the movie itself.

Interestingly enough, the Spider-Man: Far From Home runtime also confirms a long-held theory that the ‘I love you 3000’ (opens in new tab) line from Morgana Stark in Endgame was a reference to the combined runtime of all 23 current MCU movies. I’ve run the numbers and, wouldn’t you just believe it, it’s 3000 exactly. Brilliant.

So, Marvel is even slipping Easter eggs into something as seemingly arbitrary as the Spider-Man: Far From Home runtime now. Is there anything Kevin Feige can’t do?

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While there’s been no official word from Marvel, Vulture (opens in new tab) reports that Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders are reprising their roles as Fury and Hill, respectively.

The last time we clapped eyes on them in the MCU they were (spoilers for all six people who haven’t seen it) being turned to dust in the Avengers: Infinity War post-credits scene (opens in new tab). Needless to say, that almost guarantees Avengers 4 (opens in new tab) will be pulling some timey-wimey Deus Ex Machina out of the bag to ensure the safety of several MCU heroes.

This is something of a renaissance for Nick Fury, too. Having not been seen pre-Infinity War since Avengers: Age of Ultron (opens in new tab), Sam Jackson is slated to appear in both Captain Marvel (opens in new tab) and Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019. 

In fact, with Iron Man seemingly out of the picture in the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (opens in new tab), the stage has been set for not only Nick Fury (and Maria Hill) to provide the webhead with some tactical support in his battle against Mysterio on unfamiliar ground, but also act as a much-needed mentor for Spidey. Though here’s hoping Marvel will let Tom Holland stand on his own two (webbed) feet in a standalone movie at some point in the near future.
 

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