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''Madame Web'' received negative reviews from critics,<ref name="TotalFilmReviewRoundup" /><ref name="HuffPostReviewRoundup" /> who panned it as an "embarrassing mess",<ref name="TheIndependentReviewRoundup" /><ref name="RadioTimesReviewRoundup" /><ref name="THRReviewRoundup" /> and the "worst comic book movie" yet.<ref name="ForbesReviewRoundup" /> {{RT prose|11|3.4|
Lovia Gyarkye of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' believed the film did not meet its lowest expectations, calling it "airless" and "stilted". She criticized its screenplay as "mechanical" as well as the reliance on exposition "forcing people to explain themselves" while operating on a "need-to-know basis" for the audience.<ref name="THRReview" /> [[Peter Travers]] of [[ABC News]] named the film the worst in [[Sony's Spider-Man Universe]], calling it "God-awful" and "second to none in the dark art of boring you breathless".<ref name="ABCNewsReview" /> ''[[The New York Times]]''{{'s}} [[Manohla Dargis]] was critical of the film's story and dialogue, which she called absurd and "snort-out-loud risible". She felt the fight sequences were "uninspired", although she did note that Johnson appeared to be "wholly detached from the nonsense swirling around her".<ref name="NYTReview" /> ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'s}} Benjamin Lee, [[Kevin Maher (writer)|Kevin Maher]] of ''[[The Times]]'', and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''{{'s}} [[Robbie Collin]] each gave the film one out of five stars. Lee felt it was "dumb and schlocky" and comparable to some of the worst superhero films made, reiterating criticisms of the dialogue as "unfunny" and "inelegant" and said the action sequences were "uninvolving". He also negatively compared the visual effects to that of "lousy network TV". Maher deemed the film "sheer mind-boggling awfulness" and declared it represented the "death of the superhero genre, the burning of the superhero genre to the ground and then the returning in the middle of the night to piss on the superhero genre's ashes". Likewise, Collin described the film as a "two-hour explosion in a boringness factory, in which the forces of dullness and stupidity combine in new and infinitely perturbing ways".<ref name="TheGuardianReview" /><ref name="TheTimesReview" /><ref name="DailyTelegraphReview" />
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