2016 · action · superhero · adventure
Doctor Strange (2016)
Directed by Scott Derrickson1h 55m2016
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Our read: Doctor Strange (2016) (2016) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal action · superhero · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / superhero, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
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