Worst Movie of the Year Already?

Madame Web is from director S.J. Clarkson (The Defenders) and stars Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) as a New York paramedic who develops psychic abilities, with script by Clarkson, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless and Claire Parker.

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Johnson escapes most of the criticism, but everything else is getting skewered as the latest example of superhero movie fatigue meeting a genuinely disappointing film. Madame Web (which falls under the Sony umbrella) is arriving just two months after The Marvels became the lowest-grossing Marvel Cinematic Universe title of all time, earning just $206 million. If the below reviews for Madame Web are any indication, it may open even lower than The Marvels (which hailed from Disney’s Marvel Studio).

Also, in an apparent effort to “just get this over with,” Madame Web had its world premiere just last night, its review embargo ended this morning and the film will open in theaters tomorrow.

Ed Morrissey

Christian Toto and I discussed Madame Web in today's Off the Beaten Path podcast, which led to a fun discussion of bad cinema. Christian has his own review up, but it might be even kinder than some of the MSM reviews. Rolling Stone compares it to Chernobyl and Cats, which tickled Christian to no end. The woke-ish pretensions of the film did nothing to shield it from getting savaged. 

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