Doctor Strange
Entertainment Weekly|November 11,2016

THERE’S NOTHING PARTICULARLY NEW ABOUT overqualified actors being recruited to class up a Marvel movie. But the studio’s latest, Doctor Strange, wouldn’t work as well as it does (and it mostly works very, very well) without Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton—two actors who in addition to being intelligent, top-shelf stars both project a slightly alien, otherworldly air.

Kevin P. Sullivan
Doctor Strange

They make what might seem ludicrously esoteric in the panels of a comic accessible and seductively engrossing. Just as smart, the film’s director, Scott Derrickson (taking a giant leap from the Blumhouse cheapie chiller Sinister), stylistically nods to puzzle-box brainteasers like Dark City, Inception, and The Matrix to conjure a cinematic universe that couldn’t be further removed from the usual Marvel spandexapaloozas.

This story is from the November 11,2016 edition of Entertainment Weekly.

Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.

This story is from the November 11,2016 edition of Entertainment Weekly.

Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.