How to Crack Your DNA

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How to Crack Your DNA

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Watson Episode 5. After four weeks of so-so episodes, Watson Episode 5 is where the series finally comes into itself, delivering an episode that hooks the audience from start to finish. It’s…

A Missing Mom Leads To Multiple Murders

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Tracker Season 2 Episode 12. It's weird to use the phrase "good old-fashioned" for a television series in its second year, but Tracker Season 2 Episode 12, "Monster," feels like a good…

I Had A Ridiculously Fun Time Watching Blake Lively & Anna Kendrick Banter In Stakeless Paul Feig Sequel

Paul Feig said that he doesn’t like most sequels at the SXSW premiere of Another Simple Favor, but the characters called him back. Indeed, sequels are terrifying. I always expect that they’ll rarely — if ever — live up to…

Gerard Johnson Gets His Hands Dirty With Scathing New Thriller

Nobody likes shopping for houses, right? Buying — or in most cases now, renting — a new place is a top five stressful experience, combining deadlines, overly chatty estate agents, and a hell of a lot of money into something…

Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal Bro Out in an Action Sequel That Flips the Franchise

Nine years ago, a few months after the infamous release of Batman v Superman triggered the birth of the Sad Affleck meme, Ben Affleck starred as a neurodivergent accountant, who does the books for some very sinister criminal forces, in…

Ben Affleck & Jon Bernthal Fight For The Buddy Comedy In A Sad Excuse Of An Action Movie [SXSW]

AUSTIN – There are few films you’ll ever see that have an identity crisis as comprehensive and disappointingly self-sabotaging as “The Accountant 2” (or, if you prefer, “The Accountant2” as the well-edited though woefully misleading trailer cheekily shifts it to…

I Was Thoroughly Unnerved By André Holland’s Potent Film But I’m Not Convinced By Its Meta Twist

In The Dutchman, we meet Clay (André Holland) and, like his name, he is amenable and moldable. His wife, Kaya (Zazie Beetz), has cheated on him, and she’s barely making an effort in therapy. Still, he goes along with it…

Everything Is Terrible in America

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for 1923 Season 2 Episode 3. With each new episode of 1923, Taylor Sheridan throws his audience into the fire, and "Wrap Three in Terror" is no different. While much of the season…

Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd Lead a Sharp-Horned Satire Against Big Pharma

The unicorn. A fantastical creature that has adorned fantasy book covers, childhood bedrooms, mousepads, and just about anything you can think of. But in Alex Scharfman's monster comedy Death of a Unicorn, the horned equestrian is portrayed as a misunderstood,…

How to Crack Your DNA

A Missing Mom Leads To Multiple Murders

I Had A Ridiculously Fun Time Watching Blake Lively & Anna Kendrick Banter In Stakeless Paul Feig Sequel

Gerard Johnson Gets His Hands Dirty With Scathing New Thriller

Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal Bro Out in an Action Sequel That Flips the Franchise

Ben Affleck & Jon Bernthal Fight For The Buddy Comedy In A Sad Excuse Of An Action Movie [SXSW]

I Was Thoroughly Unnerved By André Holland’s Potent Film But I’m Not Convinced By Its Meta Twist

Everything Is Terrible in America

Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd Lead a Sharp-Horned Satire Against Big Pharma

André Holland & Kate Mara Lead Andre Gaines’ Fascinating, But Flawed Adaptation Of Amiri Baraka’s Play [SXSW]

An Effective Character Drama That Left Me Wanting More

Lili Reinhart Faces The Horror Of Social Media In A Psychological Thriller [SXSW]