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 […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- The latest effort from director Darren Aronofsky, The Whale is a great performance in search of a better film. While Brendan Fraser deserves all of the praise that he is getting for his lead performance, the film itself is a fairly underwhelming drama that never develops the emotional resonance worthy […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- Babylon is the movie that I wanted Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to be. The Tarantino flick was loved by critics and it bored me to tears. Babylon is hated by critics and I loved it. Go figure. The film is about the silent era of Hollywood as […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B This being the least-advertised Steven Spielberg movie of all time, I had no idea what it was about going into it. I never saw a trailer, a commercial, even a poster, nothing. I only knew the title and that it’s a Spielberg movie. So, I didn’t know if this was […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- Bones and All comes to us from director Luca Guadagnino, who I know from his godawful remake of Suspiria in 2018 (I know that film has a lot of fans, but I must respectfully say that you’re all out of your fucking minds). Between those two films, I now have […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D Back when The Simpsons was funny, which was decades ago at this point, one of my favorite gags was when Grandpa Simpson would tell a story that didn’t go anywhere (“so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time…..now to take the ferry cost […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B+ Vengeance, the directorial debut of B.J. Novak, is a dark comedy and a refreshingly neutral social commentary about the blending of cultures from red and blue states. A surprisingly original film to (briefly) creep into about a thousand theaters nationwide, Vengeance is an engrossing and often funny film that offers […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C When I saw the trailer for Where the Crawdads Sing, I thought it looked like a highbrow version of the 1974 exploitation revenge flick Gator Bait. Unfortunately, not quite. While this movie’s plot does revolve around a reclusive swamp woman being accused of murder, she does not go on a […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I’ll just say upfront that I don’t really care about Elvis. I don’t particularly dislike him, I just never understood the fascination with him. That leaves me in a bit of an awkward position with this review because I don’t know a damn thing on Elvis’ life (which will come […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- It takes either massive balls or a lot of stupidity or both to make a $90 million arthouse film and that is basically what director Robert Eggers has done with The Northman. Considering that few such productions exist nowadays that aren’t based on a comic book, I at least have […]