The latest chapter in the multi-film Marvel Cinematic Universe takes us on a confusing, effects-heavy chase across the multiverse.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a Sam Raimi movie from top to bottom, for better and worse.

Leave it to Sam Raimi to sidetrack the efficient but creatively flatlining Marvel money train of Avengers idolatry. Granted, the director of the sparkling, soulful original "Spider-Man" trilogy spends the first two acts of "Doctor Strange in the Universe of Madness" performing fan service, stuffing the screen with talismans, gimmicks and characters just like every…

Doctor Strange offers a meandering, messy multiverse

The artistry of 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' perfectly reflects the intensity of Strange navigating endless alternate realms.

Despite high points, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness rarely feels like the best possible outcome

Benedict Cumberbatch returns for a sequel that's an unhinged ride, a CGI horror jam, a Marvel brainteaser and, at times, a bit of an ordeal.

Anthony Lane reviews Audrey Diwan’s drama “Happening,” starring Anamaria Vartolomei as a young student in nineteen-sixties France who is forced to seek an illegal abortion, and Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (May 6), a Marvel Studios blockbuster starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen.

Director Sam Raimi injects some much needed personality into Marvel’s latest brand-building exercise.

'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness undoubtedly works best when Sam Raimi is allowed to break free from the MCU formula.

Don't expect Marvel business as usual from "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness," now exclusively in theaters and taking an early run at the summer box office.

A violent, wacky, drag-me-to-several-different-hells at once funhouse of a film that nudges the franchise somewhere actually new.

After unleashing all kinds of trouble in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel's Doctor Strange will try to clean up the mess in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Sam Raimi brings his singular talents to a horror-infused romp. Read our review here.

Sam Raimi takes on the MCU, in every sense of that phrase, in the second 'Doctor Strange' film. Meanwhile, in Finland, a girl brings home an egg and has to deal with the consequences.

Sam Raimi returns to comic-book movies with 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.'

“He makes zombie movies, and he makes superhero movies. And sometimes he makes both in the same movie!”So says the 12-year-old Marvel Cinematic Universe fan who lives in our house, describing director Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” after a recent preview screening. Reader, he is on the nose with that assessment. […]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is "as gleefully outlandish as any independent cult movie", writes Nicholas Barber.

It’s been six years since the first “Doctor Strange” movie. Now there’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” It opens in theaters on Friday.

An old Marvel favorite makes a welcome return to blockbusters.

'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' is the loopiest, bloodiest Marvel movie yet.

If you’ll forgive the pun, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is a strange movie. It’s one-third a sweaty act of Marvel brand expansion; one-third a somewhat confusing follow-up to the Disney+ series “WandaVision”; and one-third a pretty fun Sam Raimi action horror comedy in the vein of his “Evil Dead” series. FOX film critic Caroline Siede reviews Marvel's latest.

NOW ON DISNEY+! Are you ready to hop onto Sam Raimi's superhero-horror rollercoaster that is Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness? We pick up with Master of the Mystic Arts right where we left him after Spider-Man: No Way Home. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is attending the wedding of his soulmate, Dr. Christine Palmer (Rachel

The latest MCU film is at its best when director Sam Raimi leans into its horror elements, and at its weakest when it coasts on cameos and callbacks from a now-diffuse network of Marvel properties.

Benedict Cumberbatch’s second solo outing is a cheesy, eyeball-popping ride

Marvel's 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' catapults Benedict Cumberbatch into a wild ride that has trouble staying its course.

Sam Raimi made ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ into an ‘Evil Dead‘ movie