It’s the film we’ve been waiting for, well, a long, long time and it’s finally coming next week. With Benedict Cumberbatch starring as Stephen Strange, who is guided by the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) to become the supreme sorcerer, Doctor Strange looks like it could herald a new dawn for Marvel Studios. If first reviews are anything to go by, Marvel’s gotten it right once again.
It’s the film we’ve been waiting for, well, a long, long time and it’s finally coming next week. With Benedict Cumberbatch starring as Stephen Strange, who is guided by the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) to become the supreme sorcerer, Doctor Strange looks like it could herald a new dawn for Marvel Studios. If first reviews are anything to go by, Marvel’s gotten it right once again.
“Doctor Strange is thrilling in the way a lot of other Marvel movies are. But what makes it unique is that it’s also heady in a way most Marvel movies don’t dare to be,” wrote Entertainment Weekly’s Chris Nashawaty in his review.
Indiewire’s David Ehrlich also had mostly kind words for the film. “If Doctor Strange can be dispiritingly safe, it can also be just as impressively bold - an hallucinogenic trip along a very familiar path, watching the film is like adding a large dose of LSD to your morning commute,” wrote Ehrlich.
USA Today also thought the film is a solid effort and said so in its review. “A kaleidoscope of weirdness and innovative visual effects successfully introduce the newest Marvel superhero in director/co-writer Scott Derrickson’s brilliantly bizarre Doctor Strange.”
Time Out’s top critic Tom Huddleston noted that the film lives up to its promise of a lively blockbuster. “Derrickson promised this would be ‘weird and wild’, and so it is - at least within the context of a major Hollywood blockbuster.”
