Spider-Man: Homecoming

I am quite glad to have a Spider-Man movie that doesn't tell us the Uncle Ben story. Spider-Man: Homecoming clears my Threshold of Awesome, and comes in at #5 for me for the year.

This film does what the best YA books do-it gives us a story in which young people are the focus (right down to the various tropes whereby grown-ups can't or won't help out) without depending on that focus for appeal. Young people and old people alike will enjoy the movie not because of the young cast, but because of how the characters drive a great story.

Is it the best Spider-Man movie we've ever had? I don't know. The first two Spidey films of this century are still close to my heart, and Captain America: Civil War remains my favorite concentrated dose of Spidey, probably because of the wide variety of opponents and the delightful back-and-forth banter.

I'm absolutely not dissing Spider-Man: Homecoming, however. Like I said, it clears my Threshold of Awesome.