All 5 Tom Holland and Zendaya Movies, Ranked

There are a few actors who’ve been having a pretty sizable run throughout 2026, so far (and into what remains of the year, which is about 60% done, at the time of writing). Robert Pattinson is one of them, since he’s been in The Drama and The Odyssey, and also has Dune: Part Three and Primetime coming out later in the year. Also, Zendaya has been having a big year, since she was also, funnily enough, in The Drama and The Odyssey, and is going to appear in Dune: Part Three, too… and then there’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day and the final season of Euphoria. Finally, there’s Tom Holland, who actually might not look all that busy, compared to Zendaya and Pattinson, having been in “only” two movies, but those two movies were among the year’s biggest: The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Anyway, if you’re feeling fatigue with these actors, too bad. They’re popular, and maybe you could complain that there aren’t enough up-and-comers at the moment, but these particular actors have demonstrated range, and the popularity (in terms of critical acclaim and box office earnings) does make these movies look pretty good in anyone’s filmography. Of course, Zendaya and Tom Holland have been in more movies than just the two from 2026, and then they’re a power couple in real life, having been married in 2026 after becoming a couple in 2021. There are enough collaborations now to make a ranking possible, and The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day have been the two big summer films of the year, so why not rank away?

5

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ (2019)

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Of all the live-action Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man: Far From Home is probably technically below-average, though it’s an ongoing series that’s largely very good, and so “below-average” among such titles really isn’t a bad thing. This one picks up after Avengers: Endgame, so it has value within the Marvel Cinematic Universe for being the first true movie to take place post-Blip, which happened in Avengers: Infinity War and was then resolved in Endgame. So, emotionally, Spider-Man: Far From Home deals with some occasionally intense things, but it’s also a pretty breezy affair, with most of it taking place during a school trip to Europe. Peter Parker/Spider-Man is very much far from home, and it is quite strange to see a Spider-Man movie that doesn’t center around New York City.

It’s still very much Peter Parker/Spider-Man being tied in with other Marvel Cinematic Universe stuff here, and if there’s something that makes Holland’s third and fourth movies arguably a little better, it’s that it feels as though he gets to be a bit more central there (this is the last time he might be something of an “Iron Man Junior” in one of these movies). Also, Holland and Zendaya, as Peter and MJ, start dating in this movie, so it’s obviously important for that whole character dynamic. It is a good Spider-Man movie, just like how most of the Spider-Man movies are pretty good. It’s not especially exciting, and there are flashier/stronger ones, but this is more-than-solid nonetheless.

4

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ (2026)

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been huge. Most of the Spider-Man movies that came out before this one were also big, though it just seemed even more like the right time for a Spider-Man movie than usual. At the time of writing, its overall success can’t be known, beyond being like, “Yeah, it’s either going to make a whole lot of money, when all is said and done, or it might end up making all the money.” Somewhere between “so much money” and “all the money.” The quality of the movie itself is also high, so it’s not just a blockbuster and money-maker, doing quite a bit to give Peter Parker/Spider-Man a little more to do, now that he’s well and truly moved beyond high school.

Things are generally well-balanced, in terms of exploring the emotional consequences of what happened at the end of the previous movie, and then setting up a few threads for future Marvel movies (not necessarily just the Spider-Man ones) to touch upon later. It’s a spoiler to say who or what gets focused on in the final act, though it’s interesting… albeit not quite as good as the stuff focused on Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Even if it’s not the best Tom Holland Spider-Man movie, Brand New Day probably has his best performance yet in the role, and Zendaya’s also strong here, playing an MJ who, like everyone else in the world, doesn’t know who Peter is.

3

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ (2017)

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The first time Tom Holland played Spider-Man, it was in Captain America: Civil War, making Spider-Man: Homecoming his debut in a central role. This Spider-Man movie is “the one where people actually feel like high schoolers.” Previous Spider-Man movies had involved some high schoolers, sure, but they didn’t really feel like teenagers, whereas the main characters in Homecoming do feel more like actual teens (no one standing out in a “How do you do, fellow kids?” kind of way).

That youthfulness does make it one of the more carefree and outwardly likable superhero movies in recent memory, and maybe it’s even a bit low-stakes by the standards of this kind of film, though not so low-stakes that anything feels inconsequential or boring. Peter juggles all the things that people have to do when they’re young, still growing up, and kind of awkward, and then he’s also Spider-Man at the same time. This is something people obviously love about this particular superhero, and Spider-Man: Homecoming explores that angle of the character very effectively, and in a way that succeeds in feeling relatable and genuinely quite down-to-earth.

2

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ (2021)

With Spider-Man: No Way Home, you get a fairly big crossover movie and something of a stealth origin story for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in one. It works as the former in all the ways that have been discussed to death, because even if it was something of a no-brainer to bring back some previously-established villains and both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, it was still fun to see. And then there are things that happen dramatically in Spider-Man: No Way Home that certainly shape Peter Parker’s life in ways that necessitated Brand New Day being something of a brand-new day and all.

Spider-Man: Homecoming avoided being a traditional origin story for Spider-Man, and then some of the stuff usually associated with his origin story happens in No Way Home, making the previous two Spider-Man movies feel like an extended prologue, in effect. It’s not the everything movie, nor the perfect Spider-Man movie, but it does remain arguably the strongest (and most ambitious) of the Spider-Man films Tom Holland and Zendaya have both been in to date.

1

‘The Odyssey’ (2026)

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To take a break from all the web-slinging and superhero stuff, here’s The Odyssey, which does feature a man at its center who is almost superhuman, since Odysseus goes through a lot, to put it mildly. He also gets beaten up in a way that even Peter Parker might wince at, or feel was a bit overkill, soaking up all sorts of physical and psychological damage as he attempts to get home after fighting in the Trojan War. Odysseus is played by Matt Damon, so compared to the other movies mentioned here, Holland and Zendaya have smaller roles, the latter only showing up every now and then as Athena (or a vision of Athena), only to Odysseus. And then Holland plays the son of Odysseus, Telemachus, who goes on his own journey of sorts to learn about who his father was, and whether he might still be alive.

On top of those three actors/characters, there are countless other people who show up in The Odyssey, with there being ample room for a massive cast because the movie itself is a lengthy three hours (well, a few minutes shy, but still close). Also, for as good as most of the acting is, Christopher Nolan is probably the film’s real star, just because of all the stuff he does behind the camera. He really did find a way to go bigger and more ambitious than Oppenheimer, which was already a step above plenty of other movies he’d made up until that point as far as scale was concerned. Whether he can go bigger than The Odyssey remains to be seen, and it’d be understandable if he doesn’t even attempt to, with a scale-down toward doing something a bit more like Memento or The Prestige being possible. Anyway, even if The Odyssey isn’t as directly a “Tom Holland and Zendaya” movie to the extent that the Spider-Man movies are – and even without them sharing any time together on screen – it’s still the single best movie both have appeared in to date.

The Odyssey

Release Date

July 15, 2026

Runtime

173 minutes