The 30 Best Superhero Movies on Now TV (July 2026)

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse poster

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

IMDb 8.4 🍅 97% 1h 57m

Directed by Bob Persichetti

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMultiverse scaffolding transforms Miles into Spider-Man through mentorship rather than origin, redefining the hero's journey.

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

IMDb 8.1 🍅 93% 2h 28m

Directed by Jon Watts

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnmasking Peter Parker collapses his secret identity entirely, forcing the superhero to sacrifice everything for community.

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

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Spider-Man 2 (2004)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 93% 2h 7m

Directed by Sam Raimi

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTobey Maguire's physical deterioration visualizes the cost of heroism, making power feel genuinely heavy.

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...

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Batman (1989)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 77% 2h 6m

Directed by Tim Burton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBurton's expressionist Gotham transforms the city itself into a character, making Batman's war personal.

Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of villains. But when a deformed madman known as 'The Joker' seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld, Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis ever while protecting both his identity and his love interest, reporter Vicki Vale.

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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 92% 2h 13m

Directed by Jon Watts

✦ MovieMuse AI takeStark's mentorship and tech-removal strips Peter of crutches, forcing earned heroism over gifted power.

Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.

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Spider-Man (2002)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.9 2h 1m

Directed by Sam Raimi

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRaimi's web-slinging balletics established the superhero body as expressive performance art, not just special effects.

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

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Wonder Woman (2017)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 93% 2h 21m

Directed by Patty Jenkins

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWonder Woman's No Man's Land charge redefines the superhero combat scene as ideological statement.

An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.

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Men in Black (1997)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 91% 1h 38m

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMen in Black weaponizes bureaucratic humor against superhero solemnity, creating genre-subversive comedy.

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

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Transformers (2007)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 57% 2h 24m

Directed by Michael Bay

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInvented the blockbuster superhero formula: ordinary teen catalyst thrust into mythic robot warfare with genuine stakes.

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

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Batman Returns (1992)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 82% 2h 6m

Directed by Tim Burton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeReturns embodies the villain as baroque grotesque, making evil visually operatic and thematically complex.

The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.

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Shazam! (2019)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.0 2h 12m

Directed by David F. Sandberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film's central conceit—adult hero trapped in a child's body—generates genuine pathos and comedy, making the wish-fulfillment fantasy emotionally mature.

A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.

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Superman (2025)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 10m

Directed by James Gunn

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGunn's Superman melds journalism and heroism, reclaiming Clark Kent as the character's true identity.

Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 71% 2h 16m

Directed by Marc Webb

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWebb's Parker shoulders guilt and isolation, deepening Spider-Man's emotional archaeology.

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.

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Aquaman (2018)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 66% 2h 23m

Directed by James Wan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAquaman's creature-design and underwater worldbuilding legitimize an underestimated hero, proving production design can elevate character perception.

Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being a king.

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Chappie (2015)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 32% 2h 0m

Directed by Neill Blomkamp

✦ MovieMuse AI takeExplores AI consciousness through superhero lens—Chappie's journey mirrors hero origin narratives but questions what deserves that mantle.

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

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DC League of Super-Pets (2022)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 72% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 45m

Directed by Jared Stern

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubverts superhero iconography by centering sidekick animals, proving the genre's emotional core transcends human protagonists entirely.

When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle and Chip the squirrel - to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes.

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Bumblebee (2018)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 91% 1h 54m

Directed by Travis Knight

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHumanizes the robot-hero through intimate buddy-film mechanics, proving mechanical beings can anchor character-driven superhero narratives.

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.

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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 24m

Directed by Aaron Horvath

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-deconstruction of superhero movie conventions that paradoxically validates the genre by celebrating its intrinsic appeal.

All the major DC superheroes are starring in their own films, all but the Teen Titans, so Robin is determined to remedy this situation by getting over his role as a sidekick and becoming a movie star. Thus, with a few madcap ideas and an inspirational song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 51% 2h 21m

Directed by Marc Webb

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAmazing Spider-Man 2's emotional failure highlights how spectacle cannot replace character coherence.

For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.

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Novocaine (2025)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 81% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 50m

Directed by Dan Berk

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInverts pain-as-liability into superpower through tactile minimalism—a sensory inversion that redefines what strength actually means.

When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.

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Spider-Man 3 (2007)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 63% 2h 19m

Directed by Sam Raimi

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpider-Man 3's Sandman origin-shifting humanizes the villain through necessity, complicating morality.

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

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Men in Black II (2002)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 38% 1h 28m

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

✦ MovieMuse AI takeStylized secret-agent superhero comedy that weaponizes genre self-awareness without undermining the heroic mission's genuine importance.

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

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The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 56% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 41m

Directed by Charlie Bean

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEnsemble-team origin story structured as animated spectacle, prioritizing group dynamics over singular hero mythology.

Six young ninjas are tasked with defending their island home of Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors using their skill and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy....high school.

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Justice League (2017)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 39% 2h 0m

Directed by Zack Snyder

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAssembles mythically disparate heroes through shared loss rather than destiny—a character-first approach to superhero team genesis.

Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.

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Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 40% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 49m

Directed by Kelly Marcel

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSymbiotic alien partnership explores body autonomy and consent through superhero action, philosophically grounding the spectacle.

Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 20% 1h 41m

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrounds teenage mutant warriors in gritty realism while honoring their inherited sensei-mentorship structure and honor code.

When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.

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Bloodshot (2020)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 32% 1h 50m

Directed by Dave Wilson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNanotechnology visual effects and memory-manipulation twist construct a protagonist undone by his own enhancement, questioning bodily autonomy in superhero narratives.

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—'Bloodshot'. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 18% 2h 45m

Directed by Michael Bay

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEscalates superhero stakes by positing post-victory consequences, forcing heroes to reckon with collateral damage's political ramifications.

As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet.

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Green Lantern (2011)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 26% 1h 54m

Directed by Martin Campbell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisualizes abstract power-ring construct as pure imagination made manifest—conceptual audacity defines its superhero ambition.

For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.

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Batman Forever (1995)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 41% 2h 1m

Directed by Joel Schumacher

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMaximalist gothic aesthetic transforms psychological villainy into visually operatic superhero spectacle, prioritizing mood over coherence.

Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, and the Riddler, a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents. As the caped crusader also copes with tortured memories of his parents' murder, he has a new romance, with psychologist Chase Meridian.

Best Superhero Movies on Now TV

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Batman (1989)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Spider-Man (2002)

Wonder Woman (2017)

Men in Black (1997)

Transformers (2007)

Batman Returns (1992)

Shazam! (2019)

Superman (2025)

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Aquaman (2018)

Chappie (2015)

DC League of Super-Pets (2022)

Bumblebee (2018)

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Novocaine (2025)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Men in Black II (2002)

The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

Justice League (2017)

Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Bloodshot (2020)

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Green Lantern (2011)

Batman Forever (1995)

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