Afterlight vs Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 3.8/10 for Afterlight). Afterlight is the shorter watch at 1h 5m compared with 1h 57m. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are science fiction movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Afterlight posterAfterlight2025 VS Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse posterSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse2018
AfterlightSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Audience score★ 3.8/10★ 8.4/10
Year20252018
Length1h 5m1h 57m
GenresScience FictionAction, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction
Country–United States of America
DirectorAlison Kohlhardt, Andrew McGeeBob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey
Main castJacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ellise Chappell, Anna Fraser, Linda-Jean Barry, Clive WoodKathryn Hahn, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Hailee Steinfeld, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis

Afterlight

In a future shaped by war, AI, and fractured timelines, five interconnected sci-fi stories explore humanity’s fight for connection, survival, and meaning across time and space.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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…

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