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Gaming The ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Rotten Tomatoes Review Score Is In By Paul Tassi ,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Follow Author Jul 28, 2026, 09:51am EDT --:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more . This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more . Hours after glowing social media previews went online, many calling Spider-Man: Brand New Day better than the three movies that came before it, official reviews have now been released. Its Rotten Tomatoes critic review score is in, though it keeps fluctuating as more reviews are added.
As it stands, with over 70 reviews in, Spider-Man: Brand New Day has a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes , a great number by any standard. That does, however, make it the lowest-scored Spider-Man movie of the last trilogy. The numbers:
But at this point, we’re talking about the difference between a couple of percentage points here and there, and this is still well outperforming almost all other Marvel features in the post- Endgame era. A list of the most recent ones:
The last film that scored above a 90%? Well, that would be the aforementioned Spider-Man: No Way Home and its 993% score all the way back in 2021. So yes, it’s been a long time since Marvel has seen a movie this good.
Whether it goes up or down by a few percentage points, that is likely to do nothing to the unshakable upcoming box office performance of Spider-Man: Brand New Day , which is all-but guaranteed to be the highest-earning Marvel film since No Way Home brought in an astonishing $1.92 billion, one of the biggest films ever made. Could Brand New Day get that high? That seems like a reach, even for Spidey, but at this point, I don’t think we can rule anything out about how it might perform.
That’s especially true with a relatively clear summer ahead of it, minus lingering performance from The Odyssey, another film set to make over a billion dollars this year, though with an R-rating and no superheroes. Well, weren’t Greek gods sort of the original superheroes?
I will keep an eye on the scores, and then audience scores will be in a few days from now once Rotten Tomatoes opens those up for posting.
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