

(The spoilers will truly begin after this paragraph.)įor people who don’t remember Hollywood gossip of the early aughts, there’s a scene in No Way Home that must be totally mystifying. I’m referring, of course, to Tobey Maguire’s back.

In fact, for older viewers, that’s the main source of its power: reminding you how you felt in 2002 or 2012, when everything was fun and fresh and new.īut as one of the film’s in-jokes reminds us, not everything felt good back then. Say what you will about Spider-Man: No Way Home - our critic Bilge Ebiri did - but it’s certainly a film plugged into the history of the Spider-Man franchise. Warning: As with nearly everything Vulture writes about Spider-Man: No Way Home, this post spoils plot details of the film’s second half.
