A Spidey Sense We Haven’t Seen Before
In Across the Spider-Verse, even more thrilling than the dazzling visuals is the hero’s bold psychological journey.
Multiverses are, at this point, familiar ground for Hollywood. Films about extra-dimensional travel and parallel versions of ourselves aren’t restricted to the realm of comic-book nerdery; the reigning at the hoary Oscars is all about “verse-jumping,” after all. Yet no character is more conversant in the metaphysical and narrative implications of the multiverse than Spider-Man, who has been hopping through portals for years, both in the live-action film and in , an
