Luckily for Spider-Man fans, there are multiple villains introduced for the first time in “Kraven the Hunter.” Fred Hechinger plays the master of disguise Chameleon; Alessandro Nivola is the super-strong Rhino; Christopher Abbott is the mercenary the Foreigner; and Ariana DeBose is the mystical Calypso.

When Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was on the prowl for the villain of his 2018 entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the filmmaker had his eye on one in particular: Kraven the Hunter. Primarily a Spider-Man villain since his debut in the pages of 1964’s Amazing Spider-Man #15,

Kraven the Hunter” really doesn’t work. It is, however, more diverting in the ways it doesn’t work than “Madame Web” and the very, very not-good “Morbius.” Like those two, this one’s a Sony Marvel origin story,