Review of Spider-Man 3 (2007) by Anthony Lane for The New Yorker — 12 Sep 2016

That's the problem with this third installment of the franchise: not that it's running out of ideas, or lifting them too slavishly from the original comic, but that it lunges at them with an infantile lack of grace, throwing money at one special effect after another and praying--or calculating--that some of them will fly.