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    Review: The terrific animated film 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' opens a whole new web of intrigue

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Nov 28, 2018 3 minutes

    Like any film critic - or perhaps like Bill Maher, hopefully with more tact and better timing - I have done my fair share of obnoxious ranting against a Hollywood culture that finds its most popular expression in the exploits of comic-book superheroes. And believe me, it gives my cold, contrarian heart no joy to acknowledge that, in terms of quality, the Spider-Man movies actually appear to be on the upswing.

    This might come as a bit of a surprise, given the steady, enervating pileup of Spidey cinema in recent years, some of it prompted by

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