Movie Review: Doctor Strange: New at Reason

Doctor Strange signals the launch of what could be a very fun franchise. The movie isn’t perfect—it’s the origin story of a character from the Marvel JV universe, so there’s setup involved; and it’s a little light in the villain department; and the rampant computer imagery—some of it pretty spectacular—is maybe a little too rampant. But the occult flourishes beamed in from Steve Ditko’s 50-year-old comic-book series—the “Cloak of Levitation,” the “Eye of Agamotto,” the trippy “Mirror Dimension”—give the story a rich, pulpy, Indiana Jones-like charge that’s highly enjoyable, writes Kurt Loder.

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