In it, the titular hero (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) is hurtled through the multiverse by The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), and floats through a constant stream of both beautiful and scary alternate dimensions.
Marvel’s Doctor Strange is jam-packed with spellbinding, mind-bending visual sequences, but the king of them all is what writer/director Scott Derrickson has dubbed “the Magical Mystery Tour.”
It’s the scene that many movie-goers will be talking about walking out of the blockbuster — and that’s definitely a good thing, given that the film’s star went through hell to make it.