By the end of the last instalment of the Spider-Man movies, No Way Home, we were the only ones who could. In other words, the Tom Holland Spider-Man films have followed a familiar trajectory for superheroes and the more ordinary kind alike. This process then intensified in No Way Home where the jokes largely disappeared and the cost of being Spider-Man emerged. Both the wrong-footing and the urge to heal have been regular features of the previous Holland films. Even so – and I don’t mean this in the least pejoratively (and nor should anyone who isn’t a colossal snob) – Brand New Day is a triumph of Hollywood professionalism.