has ranked the best 25 Marvel films of all time, and the list lands with Spider-Man: Brand New Day serving as the current movie in theaters. The ranking does not just sort old favorites from new ones; it puts the latest Spider-Man adventure into the same frame as the studio’s most durable titles.
That makes the search around Spider-Man: Brand New Day on Rotten Tomatoes easier to understand today. Fans looking for the movie’s standing are really looking for where it fits in a larger Marvel argument, one that now stretches from early theatrical milestones to the MCU’s biggest names.
One of the clearest anchors in that argument is Blade, the film that helped kick off the major Marvel theatrical era and turned Wesley Snipes into the sword-wielding Daywalker. Another is Captain America: Civil War, which introduced Tom Holland’s Spider-Man and Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther, two characters who would become central to Marvel’s modern identity. also singles out Deadpool for opening the floodgates for mass-appeal R-rated superhero films in 2016, while Deadpool & Wolverine is treated as a joke at Marvel’s own habit of refusing to let anything go.
The ranking reaches back even farther, crediting the first X-Men movie with laying the foundation for the big-ticket, big-ensemble Marvel model. That wider sweep is the point: the list is built as a history of the studio as much as a taste test, and it measures the present Spider-Man film against movies that helped define what Marvel movies could be.
There is also a sharper edge to the comparison. The current Spider-Man adventure is described as unfortunately dreary even as it swings into theaters and breaks box office records, a contrast that makes the ranking feel less like celebration than judgment. It praises the films that built Marvel’s reputation while making clear that not every new entry earns that same glow.
What remains unresolved is the thing readers are likely hunting for first: where Spider-Man: Brand New Day actually lands in the 25-film hierarchy. gives the movie a place in the conversation, but not a clean answer on whether it belongs among Marvel’s top tier or sits outside it.
