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 […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F It goes without saying that Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most revered directors of all time, primarily for what is arguably the greatest 4-movie streak of any director in film history (The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part 2 and Apocalypse Now). His filmography is, at best, inconsistent […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- I actually saw Arthur the King before Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire but I’ve been putting off reviewing it because, well, it’s fine. It isn’t great, it isn’t bad, it’s just fine. I mean it’s supposed to be an inspirational movie about a dog and it delivers on that promise. I doubt […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- Legendary director Ridley Scott’s recent work has been a bit hit or miss and Napoleon somehow falls into both categories. I was eagerly awaiting this film based on the trailers and Scott’s pedigree, but it ultimately doesn’t deliver on what I want from a biopic about one of the greatest, […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I must regrettably admit that Priscilla is the first Sofia Coppola movie that I’ve watched. If I had press credentials, I would fear that they would be revoked over that admission. After viewing this movie, I’m still not sure what to make of her as a filmmaker. While Priscilla is […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A Martin Scorsese returns with Killers of the Flower Moon and perhaps cements his place as the world’s greatest living director (although Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott might have something to say about it). Flower Moon is a sprawling, 3 and ½ hour true crime epic. While greed and […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D- First, I want to mention that I had intended to see The Last Voyage of the Demeter on this particular week, but the only showtime for it at my local theater was at 10:30pm. I understand that it bombed at the box office, but perhaps its numbers would have been slightly […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A Christopher Nolan made perhaps the best superhero movie ever with The Dark Knight and is now one of the only hopes to save adult cinema from the superhero-dominated wasteland that is the modern movie theater. Oppenheimer is not only an excellent movie, but it’s the kind of movie that Hollywood usually […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- I’m not a big fan of the first two Creed movies, so I was pleasantly surprised by the superior level of mediocrity offered by this latest entry. While the first two movies suffer from numbingly boring characters, aside from a certain stallion of Italian descent, that problem is partially solved […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D+ A Man Called Otto is a remake of the 2015 Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which was an adaptation of the novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman. I am not a particularly big fan of the original film, which I find too dry and boring, but it is a […]