The second stand-alone film featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange tops the DVD releases for the week of July 26.
"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness": This sequel to 2016's "Doctor Strange" sees the snarky surgeon superhero face off with Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch across the multiverse.
"Lauded genre director Sam Raimi, who helmed the original Spidey movies, two whole Peter Parkers ago, is behind the camera for 'Multiverse of Madness,' and he brings his exuberant, gory style to bear on this Strange world," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "But even with the Raimi touch, the whole endeavor just feels so basic. Aside from one quick, hallucinatory 'verse-trip, the locations are a street corner in New York, and a street corner in New York with flowers. There’s a mountain top with a temple and a mountaintop with a shrine. This isn’t a multiverse of madness, but of mundanity."
ALSO NEW ON DVD JULY 26
"The Lost City": Action-comedy screwball romp with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in which a romance novelist finds herself on an unlikely adventure with her cover model. Also featuring Daniel Radcliffe (in a villainous turn), Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Brad Pitt and Bowen Yang.
"The Duke": Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star in this fact-based tale, set in the 1960s, about a British retiree who allegedly stole a famous painting from a museum.
"4400: The Complete Series": Sci-fi drama that aired on the USA Network from 2004-2007 about a group of missing people who all mysteriously return at the same time, with no memory of what has happened to them.
"Mid-Century": A vacation rental getaway ends up being anything but romantic for a young couple in this horror thriller when they realize the property owner has dark secrets and deadly intentions.
"That Dirty Black Bag: Season 1": AMC+ Western about an incorruptible sheriff who’s trying to overcome his troubled past to bring law and order to a frontier town full of bounty hunters, bandits and bloody vendettas.
"The Gilded Age: The Complete First Season": This HBO costume drama from "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes, set in 1882 New York City, stars Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon as sisters from an old-money Manhattan family and also features Ben Ahlers, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Debra Monk.
"They Live in the Grey": Shudder original movie about a clairvoyant social worker looking into a child abuse case who discovers that the family is actually being tormented by a malevolent presence.
"One Moment": A heart-warming comedy about middle-age siblings struggling to manage their lives and careers while also caring for their recently widowed dad, played by Danny Aiello in his final on-screen role.
"Green Lantern: Beware My Power": An ex-Marine finds a ring granting him the powers of the DC superhero in this animated movie marking the fifth entry in the Tomorrowverse. (Blu-ray and 4K only)
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