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    Please, No More Shared Cinematic Universes

    Madame Web doesn’t just scrape the bottom of the barrel—it finds new depths.
    by David Sims Feb 14, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: BFA / Alamy

    Decades into the comic-book-movie experience, filmmakers are still experimenting with the form. , the latest in Sony’s vaguely intertwined series of films connected to the wider world of Spider-Man, is about a woman named Cassie Webb (played by Dakota Johnson) who discovers that she has clairvoyant powers. More noticeably, it’s about an ostensible superhero who approaches perilous danger and supervillain skirmishes with the laconic, standoffish energy one might associate with the ingenue of a Luca Guadagnino

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