A review by phire
The Movie Doctors by Simon Mayo, Mark Kermode

3.0

The commentary was fun, but not much more than that. The central gimmick (prescribing movies for ailments) is not enough to pull together what amounts to hundreds of 1-2 paragraph reviews of various movies tied together with the loosest thread (eg "someone dies in it"), and I was sorely missing some sort of critical or thematic throughline. The "banter" between the two doctors is a pretty transparent recitation of in-jokes without much substance, and fails to retain the charm of their on-air dynamic. My favourite parts were the long-form essays about some little known fact of film-making, which makes me think I should be looking up Mark's books instead.