Every Spider-Man Movie Ranked Worst To Best

A spoiler-free ranking of EVERY Spider-Man picture to date.

by Andrew Pollard
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Marvel

With Spider-Man: No Way Home now making its way into cinemas across the globe, what better time to reflect on the cinematic history of ol' Web-head.

For those who've yet to see No Way Home, don't worry, there are zero spoilers for that film featured here. Sure, this latest outing for Tom Holland's Wall-crawler is included in this list, but any major happenings of that picture are completely kept hush-hush.

Of course, Holland isn't the first person to play Spider-Man and he won't be the last, and here there's a lookback at all 13 feature-film appearances from a character who is so often viewed as Marvel Comics' finest. From generation to generation, Spidey is someone who forever strikes a chord with readers and audiences, and there's something so constantly relatable in the everyman teenager who has to juggle a million things at once... while also having to be one of the world's greatest heroes. As such, that story and that character has been seen time and time again on the silver screen across the decades.

Taking that all into account, then, here is a definitive breakdown, from worst to best, of every Spider-Man movie outing to date.

13. Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)

3 Spidermans
CBS

The second of three Spider-Man movies which were essentially a couple of episodes of the TV series at the time tacked together, Spider-Man Strikes Back is dire.

Strikes Back is every inch a James Bond copy. There's a mysterious villain (Mr. White), there's a secret lair, there's a plot to blow up a pivotal US monument, and there's Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man saving the day at the very last minute despite the odds being stacked totally against him.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.