"AirTalk" host Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell and Lael Loewenstein review this week's most memorable releases.

“Spider-Man: Homecoming” (PG-13)

LAEL: SEE IT

“I thought this was a fresh reboot on the ‘Spider-Man’ franchise and a really nice way of introducing Spider-Man into the whole Marvel universe. … I think this is one of the best ‘Spider-Man’ [films] since the Sam Raimi-Tobey Maguire one in 2002.”

TIM: MEH

“I still prefer the Tobey Maguire film. … Look, it’s a perfectly acceptable film for this whole Marvel universe. But my problem is that it simply is a component part of this much larger thing and it doesn’t feel like a movie of itself.”

“A Ghost Story” (R)

TIM: SEE IT

“Mostly works for me. A very interesting and powerful story about a young man and a young woman. He passes away and his ghost haunts the situation.”

LAEL: MEH

“This is a weird movie, more of a kind of interesting intellectual exercise about what is a ghost to us. … It’s an odd movie that makes you think, might make you laugh in inappropriate places, it might touch you. It’s an odd one.”

“Harmonium” (Unrated)

LAEL: SEE IT

“It’s a fascinating blending of different genres. It’s film noir, it’s melodrama, it’s very moving and also surprising.”

TIM: SEE IT

“Shades of [director/screenwriter Yasujirō Ozu] here, too. Very patient, very still, very powerful.”