With “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” fans finally have a movie centered on a Peter Parker (Tom Holland) who feels like the awkward teenage hero they grew to love in the comics.

Christopher Lawrence
Who would have thought that the cure for this summer’s blockbuster fatigue would be a modest film called “The Big Sick”?
Depending on whom you ask, Netflix is either the best friend you could have on a weekend or a reckless conglomerate trying to seduce your children into becoming suicidal anorexics.
The clunkily scripted film plays like a public service announcement reminding moviegoers that Elliott is an underappreciated Hollywood institution.
Of all the movies flooding the multiplexes this summer, none will ruffle your petticoat quite like writer-director Sofia Coppola’s atmospheric thriller “The Beguiled.”
There are simply too many ideas in this unnecessary sequel, none of which is really explored, for any of them to resonate.
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