Doctor Strange

The effects in Doctor Strange will blow your mind, even if the story doesn’t.

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The latest Marvel adaptation stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular superhero, a neurosurgeon who trains with a powerful mystic (Tilda Swinton) after his hands are destroyed in an accident.

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After mangling his hands in a car crash (don’t text and drive!), gifted neurosurgeon Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) finds his illustrious career in ruins. Desperate for healing, he heads to Nepal, where a secret order of magicians led by the enigmatic Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) induct him into the mystic arts.

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In the increasingly cookie-cutter realm of Marvel comic-book movies, a little strange goes a long way.

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Marvel’s latest yarn features the Sherlock star as a surgeon who battles evil with the help of martial arts, knuckle dusters and a mysterious ancient guru.

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Dr. Strange’s voyage of self-discovery is as old as the ancients and as familiar as Christopher Nolan’s 2005 “Batman Begins,” where men become near-gods while training amid hazy, low-key lighting.

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Benedict Cumberbatch's trippy, witty Doctor Strange will turn your world upside down.

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Director/co-screenwriter Scott Derrickson generally keeps the massive enterprise moving smoothly along. The trip’s the trip here, and it’s well worth taking.

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In the year of our lord, 2016, we have reached the landmark 14th film from Marvel Studios, a visually impressive adventure titled “Doctor Strange.”

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This latest in the ever-broadening Marvel movie landscape is fun. For an effects-laden franchise launch it's light on its feet, pretty stylish, worth seeing in Imax 3-D (for once, the up-charge is worth it) and full of tasty, classy performers enlivening the dull bits.

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With a mischievous, metaphysical flourish, “Doctor Strange” administers some much-needed CPR to the flagging superhero genre. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel — a power-hungry villain (Mads Mikkelsen) tries to unleash hell on Earth, blah blah blah — but it’s a heck of a lot more fun than I’ve had at a Marvel movie lately. Plus, who could be more perfectly suited to the moniker than Benedict Cumberbatch, who’s always exuded strangeness?

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Nothing that Marvel Studios has produced can compare to the visual splendor of Scott Derrickson's Doctor Strange.

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With apologies to Jim Morrison: When you’re Strange, everyone remembers your name.

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It's too much to ask that a studio moneymaker/sequel-generator like Doctor Strange actually be strange, much less flaunt doctoral levels of weirdness.

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He knows how to get a big laugh from nothing more than an arched eyebrow.

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The Marvel Universe expands exponentially and with style to burn in this wonderfully weird tale of the titular, brilliant neurosurgeon brought low by his own cavalier arrogance only to be resurrected via Eastern medicine, mysticism, and the invaluable assistance of Tilda Swinton’s the Ancient One.

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This superhero adventure, like most of Marvel’s output, is well-paced enough with a few interesting ideas up its sleeve (including a refreshing climax featuring anti-destruction) that it should thus hold one’s attention.

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The other night, I watched a movie about a selfish, devil-may-care genius who suddenly ends up injured and helpless. As a result, he discovers the importance of helping others, and becomes a flamboyant, flying superhero persona — all while aided by a powerful energy source glowing from his chest.

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All in all, “Doctor Strange” is a fun and trippy excursion to a place where Marvel rarely seems to go: that is, to the retinal roots of the comics. The story may be nothing to write home about, but the sights to be seen there — which put the “bullet time” sequence of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” to shame — are Instagrammable.

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On the surface, “Doctor Strange” pushes the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a bold new direction. By eschewing the usual stories of technologically-gifted playboys and noble super soldiers for a world ruled by magic, “Doctor Strange” feels fresh.

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Based on the character created by comic book masters Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, Doctor Strange is the 14th flick in Marvel's infernal – and apparently never-ending – orgy of spandex and CGI pretentiously called Marvel’s Cinematic Universe.

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Doctor Strange is all about the razzle-dazzle, where spectacle elements are good enough to save a more clunky, weightless Marvel origin story.

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Little by little, though, unfunniness takes hold. Stephen’s training grows interminable. The mysticism turns deadly serious. The effects turn repetitious: Worst of all, the plot loses its way just as Stephen is coming into his own as a worthy antagonist of Kaecilius, a villain — or is he? — played with hollow-eyed intensity by Mads Mikkelsen.

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