Spider-Man: No Way Home is out in just a few days, but critics are unleashing their opinions early. And so far? They’re overwhelmingly positive.
No Way Home is currently rocking a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes with 46 critic reviews in. That may, and probably will change as more reviews roll in, but it’s impossible to get better than that as a debut figure. Over on Metacritic, it’s a perhaps less enthusiastic 71, indicating the average score of those positive reviews. But that’s still very good.
Obviously a 100% lands Spider-Man: No Way Home on the top of the MCU’s all-time list on Rotten Tomatoes, but here are the scores it would have to put up over the long term in order to stay ahead of others in the top 10:
1. Spider-Man: No Way Home – 100%
2. Black Panther – 96%
3. Avengers: Endgame – 94%
4. Iron Man – 94%
5. Thor: Ragnarok – 93%
6. Spider-Man Homecoming – 92%
7. Guardians of the Galaxy – 92%
9. The Avengers – 91%
9. Shang Chi – 91%
10. Spider-Man: Far from Home – 90%
It would be a far cry from Marvel’s last film, The Eternals, which at a 47% was the worst scored movie in MCU history, and it cements Spider-Man’s place as a massively successful part of the MCU with all three of its movies inside the top 10, and all above a 90% score. Even the Avengers movies can’t boast that, with Infinity War and Age of Ultron outside the top 10.
This will no doubt delight fans who have been going crazy for No Way Home ever since the multiverse-based storyline was revealed. Box office tracking puts tickets sales as high as anything since Avengers: Endgame, and it’s going to be a monster hit for the MCU, that much is clear.
I am curious to see how things settle as more reviews roll in. You can’t really go anywhere but down from 100%, but given that the other two films scored above a 90%, and didn’t debut this high, I’d expect it to probably end up landing inside the top 5 when all is said and done. And I would not want to face the wrath of millions of angry fans if I was the first critic to give it a rotten score, because that’s how fandom works these days.
The internet is about to become full of even more spoilers than we saw before the release of the film already, with a number of cameos leaking, but there are even more secrets past that you’ll want to avoid. I would keep social media use to a minimum before you see the film this weekend in order to avoid it being spoiled for you.
We’ll keep an eye on this score, and check back here for updates as things progress.
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