The Giddy Cosmic Spectacle of “Doctor Strange”; New Yorker, 11/4/16

Richard Brody, New Yorker; The Giddy Cosmic Spectacle of “Doctor Strange” :

"If I were an activist looking for a meme to mock the denial of free expression in China, I’d have found a potent one in “Doctor Strange”—a shot of Wong (played by Benedict Wong), fierce keeper of the great library of mystical knowledge, putting a book in chains and hoisting it onto a high shelf, out of reach. I don’t at all suspect the movie’s director, Scott Derrickson—even less, its producer, Disney—of having had such pointed intentions while making the film, but the beauty of movies is the free-floating power of moments that burst the bonds of dramatic intent, and “Doctor Strange” is full of them."