(Sony Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is, without a doubt, a visual masterpiece, an occasionally jarring but altogether awe-inspiring collision of animation styles and optical ideas piled on top of one another, a movie that looks so good and that so elegantly rides the rhythmic and percussive nature of both the soundtrack and the barrage of images that you’ll likely forgive and forget the fact that it’s only one half of a movie.
It is hard to say how gloriously refreshing Across the Spider-Verse is to see on the big screen, an explosion of controlled chaos that rather deliberately sticks a finger in the eye of the immaculate-but-fussy-feeling computer animation of Pixar and the smoothly competent but uninventive stylings of Illumination (the home of the Minions...