10 Movies That Embarrassed Other Movies Released At The Same Time

The multiverse is the big cinematic trend right now, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe obviously cornering the market on big-budget renditions of the concept, by way of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Now, it's impossible to deny the success of either of these movies, both of which turned immense profits and were well-received by critics and fans alike.

But sandwiched between them was an indie film that came totally out of nowhere and demonstrated how an imaginative multiverse movie was truly done - on a fraction of the budget, no less.

Everything Everywhere All at Once was released in March to rave reviews and, on a mere $25 million budget, grossed over $100 million globally.

Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert used their kitchen sink filmmaking ingenuity to produce visually dazzling results despite their minimal VFX budget, and on a pure conceptual level it's surely the most unique take on the multiverse we've yet seen.

And as entertaining as the aforementioned MCU movies were, their multiverse-faring shenanigans seemed a bit, well, boring by comparison.

Sure, it was fun seeing three iterations of Spider-Man hanging out, and Sam Raimi got compellingly freaky with the Doctor Strange sequel, but given the limitless potential of the worlds presented therein, both films barely felt like they scratched the surface of their multiversal potential.