Madame Web
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Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.
What critics thought
One of the most critically derided superhero films in recent memory, Madame Web was broadly savaged for mechanical plotting, clunky exposition-heavy dialogue, and uninspired action — though a small contingent argued its sheer, bewildering incompetence tips it into so-bad-it's-enjoyable camp territory, drawing comparisons to Morbius as a future cult object.
“second to none in the dark art of boring you breathless”
Peter Travers·ABC News
“a two-hour explosion in a boringness factory, in which the forces of dullness and stupidity combine in new and infinitely perturbing ways”
Robbie Collin·The Daily Telegraph
“an incoherent mishmash populated by slumming movie stars who make little effort to disguise the dawning realization that they've made a terrible mistake”
Sam Adams·Slate
“felt like an extended soda commercial”
Peter Debruge·Variety
“surprisingly committed to transporting you back to 2003—a golden age for comic book movies that were aggressively mid or worse”
Charles Pulliam-Moore·The Verge
Genres
Action, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
DirectorSJ Clarkson
StarringDakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor, Tahar Rahim
ComposerJohan Söderqvist
Madame Web
Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.
What critics thought
One of the most critically derided superhero films in recent memory, Madame Web was broadly savaged for mechanical plotting, clunky exposition-heavy dialogue, and uninspired action — though a small contingent argued its sheer, bewildering incompetence tips it into so-bad-it's-enjoyable camp territory, drawing comparisons to Morbius as a future cult object.
“second to none in the dark art of boring you breathless”
Peter Travers·ABC News
“a two-hour explosion in a boringness factory, in which the forces of dullness and stupidity combine in new and infinitely perturbing ways”
Robbie Collin·The Daily Telegraph
“an incoherent mishmash populated by slumming movie stars who make little effort to disguise the dawning realization that they've made a terrible mistake”
Sam Adams·Slate
“felt like an extended soda commercial”
Peter Debruge·Variety
“surprisingly committed to transporting you back to 2003—a golden age for comic book movies that were aggressively mid or worse”
Charles Pulliam-Moore·The Verge
Genres
Action, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
DirectorSJ Clarkson
StarringDakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor, Tahar Rahim
ComposerJohan Söderqvist
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