The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B Watcher is a solid Hitchcockian thriller that only played in theaters for about five minutes. That’s a shame because, despite some issues, this is one of the best thrillers that I’ve seen in years. Anchored by an excellent performance by Maika Monroe, this is an old-school suspense film that delivers […]
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, […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- I’ll preface this by saying that I’m being generous with the B- grade. Old is a movie that doesn’t live up to its own concept and can never make the leap from decent to great. The core idea of the film lays a foundation something greater than what was actually […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D Well, my demands have been met and my pleas have finally been answered. Here is a sequel to Escape Room. Yay. While the first film is a maddeningly bland version of Cube, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is, well, the exact same goddamn thing. But, for anybody that saw the […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F I saw this movie yesterday and my initial reaction was that it was in the D-D+ range. I expected it to be awful and it was, but I wasn’t surprised by the awfulness and, consequently, it didn’t particularly piss me off. After a day of reflection, that doesn’t make any sense. […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ Between Fatale and The Little Things, 2021 feels a lot like the 90s so far. In this case, I mean that both literally and figuratively. The Little Things is set in the 90s and that’s not an artistic choice; it was actually written in the 90s and the script has been […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- This is another case where I had never heard of a movie prior to heading to the theater to see it, but it was the only thing playing that I hadn’t seen and that seemed to make it my best option. Fortunately, while it’s nothing groundbreaking, there are far worse ways […]
The trailers for Promising Young Woman promised a rape-revenge film and I figured that could go one of two ways. It could be an artsy feminist film or it could go the route of gritty exploitation, along the lines of something like I Spit on Your Grave or Ms. 45. If you’re familiar with […]
We finally made it here, America. We’ve all gone through some dark days, but I always knew this light remained shining, as dim as it may have seemed at times, at the end of the tunnel. Yes, you know what I’m talking about: The New Mutants has finally been released in theaters. I have […]
Ever since I started going to the movies weekly in 2014, I’ve kept a list of the films that I see (this is entry #296). I occasionally look over the list and I’m always struck by the movies that I have no memory of seeing. These are the film equivalent of taking that last […]