The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D+ I’m at a place now with the MCU that I can look at a mess like Captain America: Brave New World and think “well, that could have been worse.” And it could have been worse. This is a better film than, say, The Marvels or Eternals. It’s not good that […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D+ Being a huge fan of holiday slasher movies, I was very much looking forward to Heart Eyes. In my household, the calendar is secondary to viewings of Black Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and My Bloody Valentine in marking the passage of time. The basic premise of Heart Eyes asks an intriguing […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B Love Hurts is the directorial debut of Jonathan Eusebio, one of the preeminent stuntmen and fight choreographers in Hollywood over the last couple of decades. Most people won’t recognize his name, but they know his work from the John Wick movies, a whole bunch of Marvel movies, Jason Bourne movies […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D+ The marketing for Companion was mighty vague other than the repeated and disingenuous claim that it was from the creator of one of my favorite recent movies, Barbarian. In actuality, the writer and director of Barbarian, Zach Cregger, neither wrote nor directed Companion and only served as one of four […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D If you are one of those people that watches the Paranormal Activity movies and thinks “gee, I’m enjoying this, but I wish that even less was happening,” then boy do I have the movie for you. Presence is solid on a technical level, which is the film criticism equivalent of […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- Leigh Whannell, director of 2020’s The Invisible Man, returns bring us another reimagining of a classic monster with Wolf Man. I’m a big fan of Invisible Man (and I’ll always remember it as the last movie I saw in a theater before the covid shutdown), so I was really looking forward […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D I only watched the first Den of Thieves about a week ago when I realized that the sequel would be the first major release of 2025. I’m not sure why I missed the original in theaters when it was released in 2018, but I went into it with zero expectations […]
I apologize to my millions of regular readers that I had to take a couple of months off, but I will be back at it in the new year. Meanwhile, it is time to reflect on the fucking dumpster fire that was 2024. Wow. This was easily the worst year for movies in the decade […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ Art the Clown returns to butcher his way through the holidays in the latest entry in the Terrifier franchise, delivering, for better or worse, exactly what fans of the series have come to expect. If you are looking for extreme gore, Terrifier 3 will not disappoint you. If you are […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- I wish I could have been there when director and co-writer Todd Phillips pitched the idea for Joker: Folie à Deux because logically this movie shouldn’t exist. The first Joker was a massive, $1 billion grossing hit ostensibly based on the most famous villain in all of pop culture. This […]