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2025 Action Comedy

Love Hurts

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 […]

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2025 Horror

Companion

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 […]

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2025 Drama Horror

Presence

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 […]

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2025 Horror

Wolf Man

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 […]

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2025 Action Crime

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

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 […]