Nominally a sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange, its story has to address plot threads from various other Marvel films and TV shows. Raimi has made only two films in the intervening 15 years, so I was both surprised and worried to see him hired to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the 28th entry in the ever-expanding MCU. A year later, Iron Man and The Dark Knight came along, and the superhero flick truly began its journey to monocultural supremacy. It was a box-office success but underwhelmed critics. It seemed like a story at war with itself the director’s earnest zaniness was bumping up against studio demands for more villains, more plot twists, and more money on the screen. That film was Spider-Man 3, in 2007, the final entry in his trilogy of adventures starring Tobey Maguire as the hero. The last time Sam Raimi made a comic-book movie, nobody had ever heard of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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