'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness', Marvel's new installment, and other movie premieres this weekend

Marvel's sorcerer supreme is back as the protagonist in a new installment of the saga.

This second installment with Doctor Strange as a guide, after the production of the same name in 2016, can be enjoyed as an independent fun toy, thanks mainly to two very different creative aspects: the effective work on the tone and staging of Sam Raimi and the presence of two great basic elements of the human condition: love and motherhood.

Also adapted to the cinema is the true story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier in World War II who took three decades to surrender.

This unusual character and his crazy adventure are very well described by the French director Arthur Harari.

There is also visual beauty in the way nature is photographed.

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Sean Baker, director of

, once again demonstrates why he is one of the great chroniclers of his country and of that nameless place that sits at the foot of inhuman highways.

The way of shooting inside the house of the protagonist's wife and mother-in-law, or the rosy naivety of his young lover, make up a sordid reality that Baker looks at head-on, with empathy and without judging anyone.

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the filmmakers

Ibon Cormenzana and Manuela Vellés approach the atrocious drama of a rape from a failed director-actress pulse.

There is an effort not to harass the victim, but the film, co-written with the leading actress, Manuela Vellés, gets entangled in a mise-en-scène whose crudeness about the aftermath and post-trauma of the rape is dispatched with a simplistic and gratuitous rhetoric that ends up eclipsing the best intentions of the film.

The films have been reviewed by Carlos Boyero, Elsa Fernández-Santos and Javier Ocaña, and the full review can be read by clicking on the photo.