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2022 Horror Worst of

Umma

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F                If saying that absolutely nothing happens in a movie is considered a spoiler, then I am about to spoil the shit of out Umma. This film broke new ground for me, as it actually showed me something that I’ve never encountered before in the thousands and thousands of horror films […]

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2022 Horror

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The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C-            Director Ti West was hailed as the next great horror director when he burst onto the scene in 2009 with The House of the Devil (which I think is overrated) and then in 2011 with The Innkeepers (which I think is underrated). For whatever reason, he largely disappeared from the […]

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2022 Action Superhero

The Batman

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B-               The Batman isn’t necessarily the Batman that I want or the Batman that I think we need right now, but I can’t deny that it has merit. I recently heard an interesting comment on one of my favorite podcasts (Best Movies Never Made, I listen to it on Stitcher) that […]

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2022 Action

Uncharted

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C                Uncharted, my ass. There isn’t a damn thing in this movie that hasn’t been done in a dozen other adventure films. The obvious comparison is the Indiana Jones franchise, but those films have already been copied so many times that Uncharted feels like a cover band that was inspired by […]

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2022 Horror

The Cursed

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C                I was quite surprised when I did my weekly check on the listings at my local movie theater and discovered a horror movie that I had never heard of before. Considering my daily visits to multiple horror news websites, it’s rare that a horror flick manages to sneak into 1,600 […]

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2022 Action Worst of

Blacklight

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F                It’s that time of year again. It’s the anniversary of whatever-the-fuck Liam Neeson movie was released in winter last year (I think it was either The Marksman or Honest Thief, but I get my Neeson years mixed up), so it’s time for another shitty action movie that’s so generic that […]

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2022 Mystery

Death on the Nile

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D+                The idea of Kenneth Branagh directing and starring as Hercule Poirot in a series of films based on Agatha Christie’s novels sounds so brilliant on paper that the underwhelming results seem even more crushingly disappointing. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a huge fan of old-school murder mystery whodunits and, consequently, […]

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2022 Science Fiction

Moonfall

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D               Following a musical and a Christian film in recent months, here is another genre that I don’t particularly like: disaster movies. And they don’t usually make them like this anymore. Well, except for one guy. Director Roland Emmerich has attempted to destroy the planet enough times to qualify as a […]

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2022 Drama

Redeeming Love

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F                I’m giving this movie an F, but it’s a special kind of F. Sometimes, a film comes along that provides a completely new experience for me and makes me reconsider the depths of human insanity. This is one such film.  Redeeming Love is absolutely fucking bonkers. I’ve never seen a […]

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2022 Fantasy

The King’s Daughter

The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D-                Oh, January. What cinematic treasure you bring me every year.                It’s not uncommon for a film to have a troubled path to the screen, either getting stuck in a prolonged development or production phase or even being completed and stuck on a shelf for awhile before finally being released. […]