Brand New Day’ Sets An IMDB Review Score Record

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day just made over $40 million on a Tuesday, needless to say a record for a random weekday. The film has hit many box office high-water-marks, but that’s also been the case on the review side. At least from audiences.

In addition to tying Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings with a 98% Rotten Tomatoes audience score at 98%, Spider-Man: Brand New Day has also set a record on IMDB based on user scores, with tens of thousands more than we see on Rotten Tomatoes.

As it stands, Spider-Man: Brand New Day has an 8.2/10 on IMDB, really great for the context of that site. That is, in fact, the highest score of any live-action Spider-Man movie ever made. Here’s the data:

• Spider-Man (2002) – 7.4/10
• Spider-Man 2 (2004) – 7.5/10
• Spider-Man 3 (2007) – 6.3/10
• The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) – 7.0/10
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) – 6.6/10
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – 7.4/10
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) – 7.3/10
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) – 8.1/10
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) – 8.2/10

I am not surprised that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the lowest, given the reception to that film at the time. Though I didn’t realize that it was just a three-year gap between that movie and Spider-Man: Homecoming entering the MCU. That’s shorter than the gap between No Way Home and Brand New Day.

So, is Brand New Day the overall Spider-champion? No, not quite. It would be deeply unfair to forget about the pair of animated movies that are on top by a significant margin. That would be Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with an 8.4/10 and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with an 8.5/10. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has a release date of June 18, 2027, assuming it hits that. It should be the end of the trilogy, and then raises questions about a live-action Miles Morales heading to the MCU, which has been heavily implied for years now. But for live-action? Yes, Brand New Day is on top.

I’d go through and compare the movie to every MCU feature, but that may be a post for another day. I’ll say up front that it’s definitely not #1, as I just checked and Avengers: Endgame has an 8.4. Curious about its 98% audience score buddy, on Rotten Tomatoes, Shang-Chi only has a 7.3, interestingly. I wonder what happened there.

So, it seems this record will hold so long as late-viewers don’t drop the score. Given the excitement for the film and almost universal praise, I doubt it, and it might even go up.

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