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Holland has always been convincing as a kid with a power he can’t quite believe, but here he gets the chance to stretch convincingly into adulthood. What makes the thing really fly – and it does still fly – is the witty energy of Jon Watts’s direction and the fizzy chemistry between the core actors. "Good Night and God help us all," he signs off in hilarious style. Much better is the satire of contemporary media courtesy of a badly hair-dyed J Jonah Jameson (JK Simmons, crossing over from Raimi-era Spider-Man without the benefit of a portal) and the disreputable gossip site that the Daily Bugle has become. Holland has always been convincing as a kid with a power he can't quite believe, but here he gets the chance to stretch convincingly into adulthood This is a very worthy message, but the stand-ins for the exiles are, shall we say, not entirely appropriate. Unless I am reading it wrongly, a core dilemma appears to be arguing for generosity in our treatment of asylum seekers. The picture also has an issue with reaching too hard for socio-political meaning. The jokes are better, but the CGI still occludes more than it illuminates. At its busiest and noisiest, No Way Home is just as alienating as are the fights in the sky at the end of every Avengers movie.
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