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That’s why it was interesting to be a little more plotty, to be more in some genres I’m mashing up.

Not even the matriarchal link at the story’s center feels satisfying, its good intention strangled by the plotty chaos.

That conundrum, honed to a sharp edge in the plotty first act, gets a satirical round table treatment in the second, when Icke puts Wolff before a panel of extreme antagonists on a portentous television program called “Take the Debate.”

But its pleasures and compensations lie not in plotty complications or some third-act twist, but in the humanity that suffuses an enterprise that is borne of obsession but achieves a form of transcendence.

The plot — which is very plotty — is beside the point in “Quantumania,” which pulls from a variety of sources for both its themes and its visuals.