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Review: ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ is fast and funny, navigating teen problems and saving the world

Spoiler warning: Do not read this review of “Spider-Man: Far From Home” if you haven’t seen “Avengers: Endgame." But it’s been nearly two months; what’s taking you so long?

The stakes are higher than ever for our friendly neighborhood wall-crawler in the fast-paced and funny “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” with the web-slinging hero battling a new nemesis and facing the responsibility of being a superhero in a post-Tony Stark world.

The death of Iron Man, as shown in “Avengers: Endgame," weighs heavily in this story — as does the sudden return of half of the world’s population from the undoing of Thanos’ snap, what everyone eight months later is calling “The Blip.