Spider-Man 3 (2007 Box Office Champ)

The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2007 features the top-grossing film in North America, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. Directed and co-written by Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace and Bryce Dallas Howard, Spider-Man 3 was 2007’s number one movie at the North American box office and number three worldwide.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/spider-man-3-2007), Mike D’Angelo in Las Vegas Weekly (https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/may/17/tangled-web/), and Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe (http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/05/02/secret_identity_crisis/).

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