The perfectly cast Michael Keaton, who has talked about his own working-class roots, is Adrian Toomes, a city contractor who loses his gig cleaning up after a big alien battle in NYC. This is a timely “Spider-Man,” one for the little guy, full of outcasts and screwed-over blue-collar workers. Its plot originates, literally, in the detritus of the alpha-male “Avengers” and “Captain America” movies. Fox, for those of you old enough to catch it - but this is a timely “Spider-Man,” one for the little guy, full of outcasts and screwed-over blue-collar workers. Holland’s plucky charisma recalls a “Back to the Future”-era Michael J. Much of the heavy lifting is courtesy of scrawny Tom Holland, whose squeaky-voiced, 15-year-old Peter Parker feels like a real teenager and a genuine throwback to the comic book (no disrespect to Tobey Maguire he did great things with the part, but always oozed self-assurance). Here’s a franchise you’d think had been done to death (wasn’t the last webslinger reboot, like, two years ago?), and yet “Spider-Man: Homecoming” feels fresh and new, an endearingly awkward kid brother to the glamorous “Wonder Woman.” Beginning with a score that riffs on the late-’70s cartoon and closing with a slyly funny after-credits scene, it’s as sure-footed as its arachnid namesake. Take note, Academy: Summer movies are aiming higher than just beat-the-heat distraction.
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