‘Madame Web‘ has debuted with a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. According to reports, the film offers nothing but another disappointment from Sony, similar to ‘Morbius’.
‘Madame Web’ Rotten Tomatoes Review:
| Critic Name | Outlet | Rating | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberley Jones | Austin Chronicle | 1.5/5 | “A car crash would be more interesting. Madame Web is a fender bender — nothing calamitous, just a time suck. An annoyance. A waste.” |
| Lex Briscuso | TheWrap | N/A | “Not only is the latest addition to the Marvel canon lacking a true emotional core, it’s devoid of many key elements that make a movie successful.” |
| David Fear | Rolling Stone | N/A | “Today, I owe Morbius an apology, because it turned out that Sony Pictures just needed a little more time and a whole lot of misplaced confidence…” |
| Barry Hertz | Globe and Mail | N/A | “Mostly, the movie is a Pepsi ad strangely populated by performances turned to low volume. Her casting here is an unfortunate mistake.” |
| Richard Lawson | Vanity Fair | N/A | “Madame Web might have sounded like an interesting experiment, but the execution feels less like a fully realized film than an extended prologue.” |
| Brian Lowry | CNN.com | N/A | “‘Madame Web’ proves that Sony still doesn’t know what to do with the spiderverse. Generic, at times absurd, and always mediocre.” |
| Grace Randolph | Beyond the Trailer | 1/5 | “Suffers from a weak villain, cringey dialogue, and a too long runtime — that Pepsi very clearly sponsored.” |
| Tessa Smith | Mama’s Geeky | 3/5 | “Madame Web may look like it means well but the film’s villain problem will be even more problematic down the line.” |
| Danielle Solzman | Solzy at the Movies | C- | “A turgid feature that values slapdash, paper-thin character development, unfulfilling scenarios, and lackluster action sequences above all else.” |
| Aglaia Berlutti | Hipertextual | N/A | “Madame Web spins a messy and chaotic experience that is WILDLY entertaining in all the wrong ways.” |
| Shahbaz Siddiqui | The Movie Podcast | D- | “A turgid feature that values slapdash, paper-thin character development, unfulfilling scenarios and lackluster action sequences above all else.” |
| Courtney Howard | Fresh Fiction | N/A | N/A |
According to premiere reports, ‘Madame Web’ is an embarrassing mess. Talented stars wasted on probably the worst comic book movie I have ever seen. Filled with atrocious dialogue, awkward editing, and an all-around laughable structure, I sat there baffled, scene by scene. Someone approved this. The memes will redeem it.
Directed by S. J. Clarkson from a screenplay by Sharpless and Sazama. The film is the sixth installment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU). The film stars Dakota Johnson as Madame Web, Sydney Sweeney as Julia Cornwall, Celeste O’Connor, and Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim as Ezekiel Sims, Emma Roberts, Mike Epps, Adam Scott, and Zosia Mamet. See the set images.
According to the film’s plot: Meanwhile, in another universe… In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures—if they can all survive a deadly present.
‘Madame Web’ hits theaters on February 16, 2024.
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