But Holland is also the most persuasive of the other moist-eyed boy-men (Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield) who’ve played Spidey. He’s always been a nice, cute boy with the nicest, loveliest girls, too (Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone). Peter’s boyish good nature has always been his most productive weapon, even more so than his super-ability to spin webs and swing by a thread. With his compact size and bright, easy smile, Holland still looks and sounds more like a kid than an adult, and he radiates the same sweet, earnest decency that has helped make Peter and Spider-Man an enduring twin act. And, once again, Tom Holland, the best of the franchise’s live-action leads, has suited up to play Peter Parker, the eternal teenager who doubles as Spider-Man. The trailer and the advance publicity have already spilled plenty, and Marvel’s movies cater to their fans so insistently that there’s rarely room for any real surprises. The idea is that saying too much would, as the spoiler police insist, ruin the fun here. Your critic can toss out adjectives - lively! amusing! corny!- but can’t say all that much about what happens. Now, with “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” it has a movie that’s also review proof. Its movies open, they crush and regenerate (repeat). Marvel, with its armies of true believers and domination of both movie theaters and a click-baiting media, rendered its product line critic proof long ago. The biggest villain in Marvel-wood isn’t Thanos: It’s your friendly, sometimes cranky neighborhood film critic.
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