Every Spider-Man Live Action Movie, Ranked by Letterboxd

Every Spider-Man live-action movie has now faced the Letterboxd jury, apart from the newly arriving Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the results place Sam Raimi’s era at the top of a franchise that has changed actors, directors, tones, and cinematic universes for more than two decades. This ranking covers the English-language, wide-release solo Spider-Man features released theatrically since 2002. The animated Spider-Verse movies, Peter Parker’s appearances in Avengers films, and earlier television productions are excluded because they belong to different formats or were not produced as part of the modern theatrical series.

The Letterboxd scores were checked on July 30, 2026, and they can shift as members add or revise ratings. When two films share the same displayed score, I have used narrative consistency, performances, direction, and rewatch value as tiebreakers.

8 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Gets Trapped in Setup

Letterboxd rating: 3.2/5
Director: Marc Webb
Worldwide gross: $709.7 million

The lowest position goes to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, although Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone give the movie more warmth than its reputation suggests. Their Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy share an ease that survives clumsy exposition, a crowded villain roster, and Sony’s eagerness to advertise future spin-offs before finishing the story in front of us. Jamie Foxx’s Electro receives a sympathetic introduction before the writing turns him into a broad antagonist, while Dane DeHaan’s Harry Osborn moves from estranged friend to Green Goblin at exhausting speed.

Gwen Stacy’s death remains devastating because Emma Stone gives her ambition, humor, and agency throughout the film, but the tragedy arrives after so much franchise preparation that the emotional focus has to fight for space. Letterboxd’s 3.2 reflects that divided response: viewers value the romance and Andrew Garfield’s physicality, yet the film around them keeps chasing too many objectives.

7 Spider-Man 3 Finds Value Inside the Excess

Letterboxd rating: 3.2/5
Director: Sam Raimi
Worldwide gross: $896.3 million

Spider-Man 3 shares the same displayed score as The Amazing Spider-Man 2, so personal judgment breaks the tie. Sam Raimi’s trilogy finale is overloaded, tonally unruly, and frequently awkward, but its concern with pride, resentment, and forgiveness gives the disorder a recognizable purpose. Tobey Maguire’s corrupted Peter Parker has become an endless source of memes, yet the exaggerated behavior fits Sam Raimi’s taste for embarrassment and heightened comedy. Thomas Haden Church gives Flint Marko a mournful presence, and James Franco receives a fuller conclusion as Harry Osborn than Dane DeHaan was allowed in the later reboot.

Topher Grace’s Venom remains the weakest addition, while the retcon connecting Flint Marko to Uncle Ben’s death strains the film’s emotional logic. Even so, Spider-Man 3 contains enough personality, strange humor, and sincere remorse to edge ahead of Marc Webb’s second movie.

6 Far From Home Lets Mysterio Steal the Trip

Letterboxd rating: 3.4/5
Director: Jon Watts
Worldwide gross: $1.132 billion

Spider-Man: Far From Home became the first solo Spider-Man feature to cross $1 billion worldwide, but Letterboxd places it below five less lucrative entries. That gap makes sense. Jon Watts delivers a brisk European adventure, and Tom Holland and Zendaya turn Peter Parker’s nervous pursuit of MJ into charming teen comedy, yet the film remains overly dependent on Tony Stark’s legacy.

Jake Gyllenhaal gives Quentin Beck the vanity and theatrical flair Mysterio needs, especially when the illusion sequences abandon ordinary MCU imagery for something more disorienting. The problem is that Peter once again inherits advanced technology from a billionaire mentor and then has to repair the consequences of trusting the wrong adult. The movie is enjoyable, and its mid-credits identity disclosure is among the franchise’s sharpest endings, but Peter’s world becomes less personal when New York, Aunt May, and his financial problems remain secondary.

5 Homecoming Gives Peter Parker His Youth Back

Letterboxd rating: 3.5/5
Director: Jon Watts
Worldwide gross: $878.9 million

Spider-Man: Homecoming wisely refuses to repeat the radioactive spider bite and Uncle Ben’s death. Jon Watts instead builds Peter Parker’s first MCU solo film around impatience. Tom Holland plays a teenager who wants an Avengers promotion before he understands the everyday discipline required to protect his neighborhood. Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes gives the film its greatest advantage. The car ride before the homecoming dance turns a familiar secret-identity problem into an agonizing exchange between a frightened student and an adult who has already identified him.

Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark sometimes occupies too much of Peter’s development, but the movie eventually removes the expensive suit and forces him to continue with homemade equipment. That decision protects the character from becoming a junior Iron Man. Letterboxd’s 3.5 rating places it in the middle, which suits a clever, likable reboot that occasionally carries more MCU machinery than Peter Parker needs.

4 The Amazing Spider-Man Thrives on Garfield and Stone

Letterboxd rating: 3.6/5
Director: Marc Webb
Worldwide gross: $758.6 million

The Amazing Spider-Man arrived only five years after Spider-Man 3, and its attempt to retell Peter Parker’s origin inevitably invited comparison. Marc Webb gives the reboot a moodier surface, a mystery involving Peter’s parents, and a more contemporary high-school setting, but Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone provide the reason it ranks above both lower entries.

Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker can be abrasive, especially before Uncle Ben’s death redirects his anger, yet his Spider-Man moves with playful speed and enjoys unnerving criminals. Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy is intellectually credible, perceptive, and unwilling to exist as a prize. Rhys Ifans receives less satisfying material as Curt Connors, whose transformation into the Lizard leads to a conventional citywide threat.

The film also revisits familiar origin beats without matching Sam Raimi’s economy. Still, the central relationship has enough spontaneity to support Letterboxd’s 3.6 rating and keep the reboot emotionally engaging.

3 No Way Home Turns Nostalgia Into Consequence

Letterboxd rating: 3.8/5
Director: Jon Watts
Worldwide gross: $1.921 billion

Spider-Man: No Way Home is the commercial champion of the live-action series, earning more than $1.9 billion worldwide, and its 3.8 Letterboxd average confirms that the multiverse reunion connected with audiences beyond opening-weekend excitement. Bringing Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield beside Tom Holland could have produced empty applause, yet the older Peter Parkers contribute to the youngest hero’s moral crisis. Willem Dafoe returns with frightening intensity as Norman Osborn, while Andrew Garfield’s rescue of Zendaya’s MJ gives his earlier loss a cathartic answer without erasing it.

The movie’s mechanics are messy, several villains survive on affection created by previous films, and some digital environments look less convincing than the performances inside them. The ending earns third place because Tom Holland’s Peter Parker accepts anonymity, grief, and responsibility without receiving public gratitude. Nostalgia attracts attention; sacrifice gives the reunion staying power.

2 Spider-Man Defines the Modern Superhero Origin

Letterboxd rating: 3.9/5
Director: Sam Raimi
Worldwide gross: $823.9 million

Spider-Man transformed Peter Parker into a global blockbuster hero in 2002, and its 3.9 Letterboxd average indicates that its appeal has survived major changes in superhero filmmaking. Sam Raimi treats the material with sincerity while retaining the odd angles, horror touches, broad humor, and emotional directness associated with his earlier career. Tobey Maguire makes Peter Parker awkward without turning him into a constant joke, Kirsten Dunst gives Mary Jane Watson aspirations beyond Peter’s attention, and Willem Dafoe attacks Norman Osborn with fearless theatricality.

Some digital effects have aged, and the Green Goblin costume hides too much of Willem Dafoe’s expressive face. Those limitations barely diminish the film’s storytelling discipline. The wrestling match, Uncle Ben’s death, Peter’s first pursuit, and the final cemetery conversation form a clean progression from selfishness to duty. It loses the tie for first place by a narrow margin because its sequel takes every conflict further.

1 Spider-Man 2 Remains the Letterboxd Favorite

Letterboxd rating: 3.9/5
Director: Sam Raimi
Worldwide gross: $797 million

Spider-Man 2 shares a displayed 3.9 with the 2002 film, but Sam Raimi’s sequel takes first place because it understands that Peter Parker’s greatest enemy is exhaustion. Saving strangers costs him jobs, grades, rent, sleep, friendships, and the possibility of an ordinary relationship with Mary Jane Watson. His loss of powers grows from that strain instead of functioning as a convenient gimmick.

Alfred Molina gives Otto Octavius intelligence, affection, vanity, and regret before the mechanical arms consume his judgment. His hospital awakening allows Sam Raimi to bring horror filmmaking into a studio blockbuster, while the elevated-train sequence joins spectacle to Peter’s physical depletion and the passengers’ gratitude.

Tobey Maguire can be earnest to the point of awkwardness, but that vulnerability belongs to this version of Peter Parker. The movie earned less worldwide than several lower-ranked entries, yet Letterboxd users continue to favor its balance of romance, melancholy, humor, and superhero action. First place is deserved.

Brand New Day Waits for a Letterboxd Score

Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is part of the live-action movie series, but Letterboxd had not opened its public rating average when this list was prepared. The platform lists the film’s U.S. theatrical release for July 31, 2026, while its ratings page states that nobody has rated it yet. Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Mando, and Tramell Tillman lead the cast. The film’s Letterboxd page also credits Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers as writers.

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