Madame Web
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 14, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
26
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 51 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
13
Negative:
34
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60
SlashfilmWitney SeiboldFeb 13, 2024
Madame Web does not provide a crowd-pleasing bombast. This is a pity, as this odd duck makes for a fascinating watch. This may be one of the final films of the superhero renaissance. Enjoy it before it topples over entirely.  Read full review
59
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerFeb 13, 2024
At times, the movie’s pleasingly jumpy visual scheme and nostalgic 2003-era cheese threaten to form an alliance and make Madame Web work in spite of itself. After all, the movie, even or especially in its worst moments, never gets dull (or weirdly smug, like its sibling Venom movies). It also never fully sheds a huckster-y addiction to pivoting, until it’s pretty far afield from what works about either a superhero movie or a loopy woo-woo thriller. Read full review
58
Original-CinThom ErnstFeb 15, 2024
Madame Web is a strange and quickly forgettable entry in the superhero genre. It falls apart entirely in the third reel with an unimpressive final battle and an odd, but not wholly uninteresting, Buñuel-like expose. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 15, 2024
Sadly, Madame Web fails to rise above its pedigree as a lesser superhero movie. It does nothing to convince viewers that there’s value to be found in a story not featuring a marquee comic book character. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 14, 2024
Still, for much of “Madame Web,” even when it turns bad, it’s a pleasure to see Johnson in this kind of movie. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshFeb 13, 2024
Is Madame Web a good movie? No. Is it hilariously delightful? Often. Read full review
50
Vanity FairRichard LawsonFeb 13, 2024
Madame Web is a muted affair—not outright terrible but certainly not good, neither inert nor as meme-worthy as hoped. It’s a strange movie whose tortured existence is the most compelling thing about it. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 13, 2024
No matter how likeable Cassie and her friends are, they are powerless in the face of a plot that goes through the motions, revealing ‘shocking’ twists about her past and building to an overblown finale. Madame Web argues that no one’s future is written, but it is very easy to see exactly where this film is going. Read full review
50
IGNFrancesca RiveraFeb 13, 2024
Madame Web has the makings of a interesting superhero psychological thriller, but with a script overcrowded with extraneous characters, basic archetypes, and generic dialogue, it fails the talent and the future of its onscreen Spider-Women. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithFeb 15, 2024
Even though it starts out likable, it gets sillier as it goes along and winds up as camp. Read full review
40
EmpireCatherine BrayFeb 14, 2024
Madame Web isn’t much worse than the rest of the SPUMC, give or take, but it’s not really better, either. Its minimal saving grace is that it doesn’t require much familiarity with the wider universe. Read full review
40
CNNBrian LowryFeb 13, 2024
Ultimately, Madame Web might have sounded like an interesting experiment, and it sort of is, but the execution feels less like a fully realized film than an extended prologue for a movie to come. Read full review
40
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 13, 2024
On the basis of Madame Web, however, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is now completely lifeless—and in no need of resuscitation. Read full review
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