
Sandman, Venom, and James Franco’s Green Goblin all lack their own spotlight with the movie being far more concerned with hammering home Peter Parker’s internal conflict and dark suited shenanigans instead. Instead, it reads a case study into how too many supervillains can spoil a previously finely-poised Big Apple broth. Where did it all go wrong? Spider-Man 3 should have seen Sam Raimi’s trilogy go out in a blaze of symbiotic glory. Amazing Spider-Man 2 is instead content with a general hand-wave towards the Raimi trilogy, which made far better use of the source material. Yet Spidey’s nemesis never quite earns his place as a top-tier villain thanks to some rushed storytelling and a tendency for the script to skip over most of his motivations. The inclusion of the Green Goblin, meanwhile, does lead to Gwen Stacy’s heart-wrenching death.

Their showdown ultimately fizzles out into nothing more than an anti-climactic power struggle. Jamie Foxx’s Electro is played for laughs and, as such, never quite stacks up against Andrew Garfield’s webhead. Scraping the bottom of the Spidey barrel is Amazing Spider-Man 2, a movie that takes a solid (if unspectacular) prior movie and undoes all the goodwill built towards the rebooted series by making a flurry of baffling character choices. So, scroll on to check out the very best Spider-Man movies ever.

To be clear, we've only included movies that are solely about Spider-Man on our list, so the likes of Civil War and Endgame are disqualified (even if they are very good). That means we've got the Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland movies below, though we're still waiting for Spider-Man: No Way Home to arrive… We've rounded up all of Spidey's big-screen adventures below to bring you the best Spider-Man movies ever, ranked from the worst to the greatest.

We're willing to bet you already have Spider-Man 2, starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as your top two choices – but what about the others? Spider-Man has been brought to the big screen many, many times by now, so it can be hard to figure out which are the best Spider-Man movies and which should be lower down on your (re)watch list.
