The Amazing Spider-Man Reviews
Concrete Playground
One good film deserves another.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Rage Monthly
One of the ten best films of 2012.
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| Original Score: A-
Austin American-Statesman
The recasting works. If Maguire is the Spider-Man of Spidey co-creator Steve Ditko, this is the Spider-Man of artist John Romita: a little slicker, a little more modern. Spider-Man in skinny jeans, if you will.
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| Original Score: B
eFilmCritic.com
I go to a Spider-Man movie to see the guy duke it out with powerful bad guys. I'm simple that way. I don't need a welter of convolutions.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Star
This edgier Parker feels a more believable alter-ego - closer to the wise-cracking, ass-kicking hero from the comics and early animated TV series.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Metropolis
"The Amazing Spider-Man" isn't as dramatically revisionist as Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins," but it's as good as Raimi's first "Spider-Man" film and darker, while still being tongue-in-cheek. That's a tough tone to master.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Cinema Crazed
A superior film that promises to age better than Sam Raimi's films...
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| Original Score: 3/4
ScreenRant
The potential is there for a much bigger, better, Spider-Man movie universe to come, even if this movie doesn't fully realize that potential.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Aristocrat
We all know that Spider-Man 3 sucked, but did it have to come to this? A 'one strike and you're out' policy? I would have taken a Raimi/Maguire Spider-Man 4 over this retread any day.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Shotgun Critic
Not quite 'amazing' then, but there will always be a deserving audience for rock-solid superhero movies done with this kind of heart and care.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Flix Capacitor
While Raimi's Spidey was primarily inspired by the classic modellings of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Webb blends a welcome hybrid of Nolan's Bat-verse and Brian Michael Bendis' rightly-acclaimed Ultimate Spider-Man run.
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| Original Score: 4/5
We Got This Covered
The Amazing Spider-Man may be a reboot, but it feels entirely fresh thanks to a strong, different interpretation of the Spider-Man mythos and tremendous performances from the excellent ensemble.
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| Original Score: 9.5/10
CraveOnline
If, however, you want a perfectly entertaining and efficient movie, then this will prove to be actually rather fun.
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| Original Score: 7.5/10
Fan The Fire
It's unfortunate that the set pieces feel a little derivative of Raimi's films, but that was always likely to be the case given the close proximity of this new film to its predecessors.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema Sight
While the film suffers from its rah-rah sentimentality, there is no better Spider-Man than Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone is wonderful.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
A decent movie by any measurement, it can't avoid being compared to the previous films, by that standard it isn't a game changer but Webb shows considerable promise.
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| Original Score: B
Examiner.com
It's like discovering a new formula to reach a similar result. "The Amazing Spider-Man" is slightly darker in tone and less campy than the "Spider-Man" films. Visually stunning, emotional, and intelligent; "The Amazing Spider-Man" lives up to its name.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Salt Lake Tribune
The moments of "The Amazing Spider-Man" that work best are those between Peter and Gwen - a meeting of young minds that is awkwardly charming.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinema Signals
What's preserved here is the essential attraction of Spider-Man -- an action hero who has had to learn rather than inherit his effectiveness.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Scorecard Review
While it feels a little messy, they get enough things right (like Garfield's Peter Parker).
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| Original Score: 7/10
