Despite his sorcerer bona fides and voluminous cape, Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange isn’t strange enough, and trying to parse the convolutions of the...
[Cumberbatch] brings a lot more intensity than you’d think possible to moving his fingers an inch or two as digital sparks fly.
The result of all this is a lot of crumbling masonry and an abundance of gruesomely charred bodies that make it clear Raimi is out to honour h...
While the Marvel-ness of «Madness» will make your head spin, Raimi’s signature style, penchant for the macabre and sense of humor oddly ground the...
As events unfold, Raimi’s hand becomes more and more apparent, and that’s a good thing.
USA Today November 10, 2021 The series is hilarious and mature (but not too grown-up), with a voice cast that includes Jason Ritter, Linda Cardellini and Kristen Schaal.
What keeps it under the level of the best of these films, though, is what has been an increasing issue in superhero movies. The powers are not clea...
Raimi has found in this sequel a surprisingly accommodating vehicle for his ecstatic love of horror filmmaking (to say nothing of a darkly exu...
Sophisticated, beautifully-acted, emotional and very funny…
A Sam Raimi movie through and through.
As for «story points,” I saw nothing that answers to that description. All we get is a grab bag of oddments.
Variety September 11, 2018 The show has a breezy quality that should play to kids, and tickle some twinges of nostalgia among their parents.
The multiverse madness is treated with genial high-energy panache, though I have to say that this infinite profusion of realities does not act...
an interpretation that is often more weird gory horror than the usual superhero fodder weve come to expect from the franchise.
It doesn’t happen immediately, but when it matters most, Raimi unleashes all of the crazy, comedically vaudevillian, blood-soaked, visually audacio...
RogerEbert.com July 30, 2018 Gravity Falls» deserves to be in the conversation… when people discuss the best animated programming of the '10s. It is a beautiful blend of old-fa...
«Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness» is a ride, a head trip, a CGI horror jam, a what-is-reality Marvel brainteaser and, at moments...
There may be a universe in which I feel the barest thread of emotional connection to even one thing that happens during the 126 minutes o...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has officially jumped the Stark.
It’s going to service fans… but even if you aren’t a fan you can come into it and embrace it as a standalone film.
Whenever Raimi gets the space to set his own terms, the slapstick comedy and anything-goes macabre spirit of the Evil Dead films and Drag Me to Hel...
If anything, this sequel to Strange’s original 2016 solo joint seems to have liberated Raimi to do what he does best, while still stickin...
'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' clearly bears the fingerprints of director Sam Raimi, who infuses the material with the same trippy...
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness is visually imaginative but underwhelming.
«Doctor Strange 2» extends no mercy to those who merely seek escapist superhero entertainment. Study up or risk suffering complete disorientation.
This is one of the weirder Marvel movies yet.
A film about broken people who are searching for the strength to get by without the things that made them what they are, in a franchise that h...
While Raimi injects as much soul into this sequel as the Marvel blueprint will allow, it’s difficult to see the film as anything other than a cog i...
In terms of Raimi’s back catalogue, it’s more Spider-Man 3 than The Evil Dead.
It’s delicious melodrama at times, cut alternately by straight humor and gravitas. As messy as it looks on paper, it’s never less than visually stu...
If you enjoy watching a handful of randomly selected branded characters wisecrack, squabble and mope while pretending to fly around and shoot...
This film requires an encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel minutiae and world-class cross-referencing skills to fully work. And who, outside the diehar...
I’m thinking of a moment in the original movie in which Stephen looks skeptically at a deeply corrupted individual nattering about the greater...
Perhaps the Marvel universe is finally starting to feel like a long running comic book series. Or maybe Phase 4 just hasn’t kicked...
The Multiverse of Madness is a frustrating mix of eclectic elements that at times feel more like Raimi referencing his Evil Dead movies than h...
New York Daily News September 11, 2018 So we’ve got romance, adventure and tween/teen pop culture humor, all assembled by 26-year-old Alex Hirsch.
Any opportunity to really put the «madness» in this multiverse is spoiled by the crowded, intersecting desires of its three main characters.
It’s one of the lesser Marvel movies… Both overly-complicated and dull.
Multiverse of Madness is delightful, unhinged commercial art that is as complex as the multiverse itself. It’s thoughtful as it is stylish, as icy...
«Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness» eliminates the playful idiosyncrasy in the interest of formula—of Marvel’s self-perpetuating business...
Waving his arms in front of his face as if directing the worlds tiniest traffic, Cumberbatch cant quite shake the impression of an old-school conju...
If Marvel directors are often merely first among hired hands… Raimi is allowed a creative signature, delivering a family-friendly take on the...
Save for one cool (and brief) visual sequence, this multiverse feels less mad than studio-mandated.
The script’s a messy sort of mess. There are also clear signs of a nervy director at work.
Multiverse of Madness is overstuffed with the usual fan bait, but it’s also undeniably a Sam Raimi movie, and a remarkably good one at that.
Multiverse of Madness hurtles its characters from one reality to another, shedding the blandness of its opening stretch and giving Raimi, bless him...
Too often, «Doctor Strange» is muddled, sluggish and ordinary.
A useful rule of thumb in watching «Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness» is that if Cumberbatch (or Wong) isn’t in a scene, go for pop...
A summertime sequel that proves way too messy and geeky until it manages to double back around again into pleasurable absurdity.
The anything-goes aspects of that can be alternately thrilling, disorienting and occasionally, a little silly. All told, this sequel proves highly...
Playful, carnivalesque and occasionally funny nods to Sam Raimi’s canon aren’t exactly evidence that a director got to exert authorial control over...
Gently twisted, with some Disneyfied action and heart-warming folded in.
The story makes apocalyptic stakes – the fate of the multiverse; the struggle between good and evil – seem curiously trivial.
Hits the ooh-and-aah marks we expect from a well-crafted Marvel adventure, but even with Sam Raimi at the helm, this entry goes heavy on the s...
As gleefully outlandish as any independent cult movie.
Marvel’s most deranged and energetic movie yet, as much of a winning comeback for director Sam Raimi as it is a mega-budget exercise in...
Marvel fans are gonna love all those fan-servicing, momentum-sapping cameos, but Raimi fans are going to find themselves liking the film more and m...
The strongest MCU outing since Black Panther… as much Marvel Machine as it is Raimi enjoying his return to the big screen after almost 10 ...
The ideas that hold a gleam of potential are shot down by the film’s rank ugliness, its incessant pace of exposition, the utter slog of the fi...
Raimi and Waldron have managed, on a scene-by-scene basis, to create something which often feels truly fresh and original.
Even down to the last obligatory post-credit scenes Raimi forges his own weird, irreverent magic, a method in the Madness.
Even in the midst of its typically (for Marvel movies) convoluted plot, The Multiverse of Madness has a Raimi-like sense of bleak humor…
the tale translates poorly to the big screen, even with the filmmaker working overtime to inject his raucous appetite for horror into what still ne...
It might be Marvel's multiverse, but Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is Raimi's plaything. And we wouldn't want it any o...
The return of Benedict Cumberbatch to the world of Strange may seem chaotic madness to the uninitiated, but it’s thrilling to see livewire director...
Multiverse of Madness employs two powerful assets for Stranges latest outing: Sam Raimi and Elizabeth Olsen. Raimi easily slips back into his horro...
Marvel made a Sam Raimi horror movie! It’s weird, scary and very much earns the title «Multiverse of Madness.»
A Marvel entry meant for mega-fans, but with intriguingly dark shadings and moments of emotional power.
At its finest, this psychedelic, horror-strewn romps artistry perfectly reflects the intensity of Strange navigating endless alternate realms.
Sam Raimi marries his macabre sensibility with his love of the wild possibilities of comic books to create a Marvel movie that is expansive, a...
A film that constantly pushes back against its own possibilities … both WandaVision and Loki took more creative risks. Significantly.
Every good magician knows that the real trick is making the audience care. For all of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’s mind-bending un...
Though unsatisfying in some respects, the film is enough fun to make one wish for a portal to a variant universe in which Marvel movies spent...
