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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is off to a record-smashing start. The film pulled in an estimated $355 million domestically over its opening weekend, the largest domestic opening in Spider-Man history and the second-biggest of all time, trailing only Avengers: Endgame. Critics have been just as enthusiastic, with the film holding a 90% score on Rotten…

In his comic book origin story, Spider-Man, aka Peter Parker, painfully learns that “with great power comes great responsibility.” The focal point of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is a corollary of that truism: True heroism often requires selflessness and sacrifice. Those old-fashioned values resonate all the more forcefully in this era of social media’s showboating…