Weak, broken, feels like someone trying to just get by in their job.

I really wanted to like it but I hated it to be honest. It was really inconsistent. It tried really hard to feel high stakes but I couldn’t get into it. The girl literally punches holes through the multiverse, he controls a dead him that looks really bad. Idk just wasn’t what I expected.

Paired with Danny Elfman's fizzy score, Raimi elevates Multiverse of Madness from the bridge-building bit of IP it so transparently is. While he doesn't quite elevate it to the madness that the film promises, he does, for a few brief, shining moments, show the kids how those superhero movies could be done.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness definitely makes good on the promises of an excessive title: Alternate realities are in full effect, things get progressively more bonkers, and the latest adventure for Benedict Cumberbatch’s Marvel magic man takes “the search for one’s self” conceit to a whole new level.

Brian Truitt

USA Today

Marvel's most deranged and energetic movie yet, as much of a winning comeback for director Sam Raimi as it is a mega-budget exercise in universal stakes-raising.

Dan Jolin

Empire