Spider-Man: Brand New Day landed at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. That number is good — but the context around it is what makes it historic.
It means all four Tom Holland solo Spider-Man films have now hit 90% or above on Rotten Tomatoes. Homecoming sits at 92%. Far From Home at 91%. No Way Home at 93%. Brand New Day at 90%. Four films. Four Certified Fresh ratings. Zero soft landings. Paired with a 98% Audience Score (Popcornmeter) — the highest of any live-action Spider-Man film ever — Holland accomplishes what no other actor to wear the mask has achieved across an entire franchise run.
No live-action actor to play the character has done that.
| Spider-Man Era | Solo Films | Lowest RT Score | Highest RT Score | RT Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tobey Maguire (2002–2007) | 3 | 63% (Spider-Man 3) | 93% (Spider-Man 2) | 82.0% |
| Andrew Garfield (2012–2014) | 2 | 52% (TASM 2) | 73% (TASM) | 62.5% |
| Tom Holland (2017–2026) | 4 | 90% (Brand New Day) | 93% (No Way Home) | 91.5% |
How the Other Eras Compare
To understand the weight of Holland's four-film streak, you have to look at how quickly previous Spider-Man eras unraveled.
Tobey Maguire's run came closest. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002) opened at 90% and Spider-Man 2 (2004) hit 93% — the franchise high-water mark for a decade. Then Spider-Man 3 arrived in 2007 at 63%, and the streak was over. The trilogy ended with a film that critics and audiences have spent nearly twenty years arguing about. Two great films and one that undid the goodwill — studio interference, villain over-saturation, and creative friction all rolled into a single entry.
Andrew Garfield's era never got off the ground by comparison. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) landed at 73% — decent, not exceptional. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) fell to 52%, the franchise's lowest score, and Sony's plans for a shared universe collapsed almost immediately after. Two films, neither above 90%.
Holland's run: 92%, 91%, 93%, 90%. A four-film band so tight it looks like a calibrated instrument.
The Director Problem
Every major franchise eventually faces the same question: what happens when the director leaves?
Jon Watts built Holland's Spider-Man from the ground up — three films, a consistent voice, a stable creative partnership with Marvel and Sony. When he stepped down after No Way Home, the franchise lost its architect at the height of its popularity. That kind of handoff is where franchises quietly start to fall apart. A new director with a different instinct, a slightly different read on the character, and suddenly the thing that made it work stops working.
Destin Daniel Cretton took over for Brand New Day and made a different film entirely. Where Watts kept Peter Parker tethered to high school hallways and European vacations, Cretton stripped the whole thing back — street-level Queens, rent checks, Jon Bernthal's Punisher bringing a harder edge to the conflict. Tonally, it's the furthest the franchise has moved from its own origin.
The score held at 90%.
That's the real story behind the four-film streak: not just that Holland made four good Spider-Man movies, but that the franchise absorbed a complete directorial reset and critics barely flinched. The MCU-Sony structure — producer continuity, character stability, casting consistency — proved durable enough to survive its biggest internal change yet.
No One Tells You to Skip a Holland Film
When's the last time you saw someone warn a new viewer to skip one of Holland's Spider-Man movies?
With Maguire, the answer is always Spider-Man 3 — watch the first two, the third one is a mess. With Garfield, most people just say start with the MCU instead. There's a version of every other Spider-Man era where a sequel undoes the goodwill built by what came before.
Holland's filmography doesn't have that entry. No black sheep. No chapter the internet has quietly agreed to write off. Whether that makes each individual film a masterpiece is beside the point — what it means is that nine years into his run, the baseline has never cracked.
That's what Franchise Insurance looks like. And in modern Hollywood, where one bad sequel can unwind years of audience goodwill overnight, it's rarer than the 90% scores themselves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Has any Spider-Man actor had all their solo films at 90% or above on Rotten Tomatoes before Tom Holland? No. Tobey Maguire's run was derailed by Spider-Man 3 (63%). Andrew Garfield's two films scored 73% and 52% respectively. Holland's four-film streak — 92%, 91%, 93%, 90% — is the first time a live-action Spider-Man actor has achieved this across an entire solo run. The animated Spider-Verse films score even higher (97% and 95%), but they're a separate franchise with a different production team.
What is Tom Holland's highest-rated Spider-Man film on Rotten Tomatoes? Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) holds the highest score at 93%. Spider-Man 2 (2004), from Tobey Maguire's era, also sits at 93% and remains one of the most acclaimed superhero films of its generation.
Who directed Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) directed Spider-Man: Brand New Day, taking over after Jon Watts completed his trilogy (Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home).
What is Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Rotten Tomatoes score? Spider-Man: Brand New Day currently holds a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it Certified Fresh and completing Holland's four-film 90%-or-above streak.