Let's be brutally honest: Madame Web is one of 2024's biggest cinematic misfires. With a 10% critic score and 1.5/5 on Letterboxd, this isn't just "not great"—it's actively bad.
The premise (paramedic gains precognition, protects three young women from a villain) could work, but the execution is so poor that even the 53% audience score feels generous. The plot is confusing, the CGI looks unfinished, and the pacing is all over the place.
From a safety perspective, it's fine—standard superhero action without anything traumatic. But that's the only thing it has going for it. There's no enrichment value, minimal entertainment value, and certainly nothing imaginative about yet another poorly-executed superhero origin story.
If your kid is begging to watch it because they love Spider-Man, just... put on Into the Spider-Verse instead. Or Across the Spider-Verse. Or literally any other Spider-adjacent content. Your family's movie night deserves better than this.




