Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man and Emma Stone star in Columbia Pictures’ “The Amazing Spider- Man.” ©Columbia Pictures.
By JAMES DAWSON
Front Row Features Film Critic
Better in every way than the recent trilogy it reboots, “The Amazing Spider-Man” succeeds by boldly going forward into the comic-book character’s past. The epic-length 138-minute adventure not only updates the web-slinger’s origin but provides a glimpse of the parents who abandoned him when he was a child. (The rest of this article is available only to frontorwfeatureswire.com subscribers. For subscription information, contact frontrowfeatures@gmail.com.)
