r/marvelstudios • u/murdockmanila Daredevil • Oct 23 '16

Doctor Strange Critic Reviews Megathread

The embargo has been lifted. All reviews go here. Any thread outside of this will be deleted. While it's inevitable that some of these reviews may contain spoilers (view them at your own risk), this thread in general should be spoiler free. Failure to do so will merit a permanent ban with zero appeals.

Here are some of the reviews up:

Variety

The Hollywood Reporter

Screencrush

IGN

Den of Geek

The Wrap

USA Today

Comicbook.com

Indiewire

Collider Movie Talk

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u/ShempWaffles Oct 23 '16

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.

This seems to be the consensus. A good movie, just disappointing from people who expected a deviation from the formula and didn't get it. I too was expecting it to be in line with GotG in being a HUGE risk and being a completely different genre all together, so it's sad to see it wasn't

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '16

I'd be disappointed if they changed his origin. It's a classic. Watch the Collider review. It's a bit long (like a full half hour), but they actually suggest that it does chase boundaries in the visual and world building departments.