The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F I want to begin by quoting what is now my all-time favorite Rotten Tomatoes blurb. This gem comes to us from a positive review of The French Dispatch published by New City Film, a Chicago-based film criticism site: “An encomium to incunabula and marginalia and compulsive sketching and drenching details,.. […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I’ve often wondered what movies people will be nostalgic about in 30 years. With the modern obsession with remakes and reboots, the current generation doesn’t have much to call their own. When today’s teenagers are approaching 40, will they be nostalgic for the nostalgic reboots of movies from the 70s, […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C This is my first time reviewing a James Bond movie because it has been a whole six years since 2015’s underwhelming Spectre. That ties the longest gap between Bond entries, matching the break between 1989’s License to Kill and 1995’s GoldenEye (that delay was caused by a court battle over […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D It sucks to watch your heroes get old. Whether it’s watching a legendary ballplayer tip his cap for the last time or watching an iconic band take the stage to the realization that they are now the old men that they once rebelled against, there is nothing that makes one […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F Venom: Let There Be Carnage is one of the worst comic book movies ever made and I think I’ve seen every one of them. I hated every second of this film. I hated every second of the experience of watching this film, and I’ll review the audience at the end. […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D- James Wan has taken a break from mega blockbusters to return to his horror roots and proves that he has greater versatility than just making mediocre haunted house movies; he can also make terrible giallo movies. Malignant begins in a similar vein as Wan’s The Conjuring and Insidious, but quickly […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- As a fan of martial arts movies from the 70s and 80s, I was looking forward to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in hopes that it would infuse some new flavor into the Marvel formula. While there are some kickass moments in early fight scenes and some […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D- Let me start with a bit of a disclaimer: There are plenty of reviews of Candyman that will tell you how brave or relevant or powerful the film is, or how the film is any number of other adjectives that used to actually mean something but now just vaguely denote […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- Damn it, The Night House is so close to being a great movie. So very, very close. For about the first three quarters of this film, I was giving it an A and ready to proclaim it the best film of 2021 thus far. Then the last quarter happened and […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- The original Don’t Breathe was a clever, tense horror flick that cleverly subverted the home-invasion subgenre. The story of a group of thieve that break into a blind veteran’s home to steal his considerable savings only to discover that the seemingly defenseless old guy is actually a quite capable maniac, […]