‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ movie review: Tom Holland finally swings free in Destin Daniel Cretton’s soulful reinvention

Ever since Thanos snapped half the universe out of existence and Endgame painstakingly stitched the Marvel Cinematic Universe back together, Marvel has been trapped inside its own museum, endlessly dusting off relics from a past it cannot stop monetising. Seven years of chasing the diminishing returns of its increasingly baroque mythology has produced a dense industrial complex that has entirely lost sight of the ordinary people who once gave those cosmic stakes so much weight. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day , helmed by Short Term 12 and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton , the studio finally seems to have come to terms with the exhaustion from multiversal slop.