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Review of Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 21 Jan 2022

We may never fully know who Brian Wilson is, but in his resistance of that knowing, we gain clarity on a crucial plank of his latter-day persona…

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Review of The King's Daughter (2022)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Jan 2022

If this is all starting to sound like an ambitiously amusing fiasco, don’t be fooled: Scenes saunter by one after the other, their dialogue…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 14 Jan 2022

Even if the dry wit and cherrypickable allusions may be absent, the technical virtuosity on display marks this as the work of a master…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 14 Jan 2022

Even if the dry wit and cherrypickable allusions may be absent, the technical virtuosity on display marks this as the work of a master…

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Review of Sing 2 (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Dec 2021

In between the many high-gloss production numbers and a couple commendable bits of physical comedy putting the previous installment to shame,…

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Review of C'mon C'mon (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 03 Dec 2021

The tone never defines the stakes in such grave terms, but that’s the key to the potency of Mills’ cinema: life’s pivotal turns come…

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Review of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Nov 2021

Alas, there’s no covert greatness to the just-plain-underwhelming Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, a reboot totally bereft of the…

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Review of House of Gucci (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Nov 2021

Considered as a star-text alone, the film is functionally enjoyable (and will inspire Halloween costumes for the next fifty years), but it’s…

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Review of Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Oct 2021

There’s a system incompatibility error with the dominant bestie metaphor that leaves the film’s stance on Big Gizmo garbled…

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Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 11 Oct 2021

Here, we can find a damning summary of modern Hollywood’s default mode – a nostalgia object, drained of personality and fitted into a dully…

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Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Polygon (677) on 24 Sep 2021

On film, this story’s foundation of cynical button-pushing is laid bare…

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Review of Beba (2022)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2021

Never lacking in earnestness or vigor, she nonetheless teeters over the lines separating introspection from navel-gazing and the raw from the…

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Review of Copshop (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Sep 2021

Carnahan’s formal proficiency makes for a more sharpened and accomplished piece of work than many modern counterparts attempting to draw…

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Review of Malignant (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 10 Sep 2021

If only they’d put fuller faith in the true nature of their premise, and leaned all the way into the kookier side of body horror…

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Review of The Voyeurs (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 08 Sep 2021

Mohan handles his audience with care, diligence, attentiveness, creativity, smoldering passion – the mind positively swims with sexual metaphors…

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Review of Kate (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Sep 2021

Even if the combat choreography that made this vein of cinema so popular is up to snuff, and Winstead does handle her steps ably even as her…

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Review of The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Aug 2021

The thread connecting the finest shorts — Panahi, Poitras, and Joe — is adaptation, the willingness to alter form to match the challenge…

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Review of Demonic (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2021

While Blomkamp does have one impressive CGI trick up his sleeve, he totally drops the ball on the narrative end of things…

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Review of Respect (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 09 Aug 2021

In the leading role as the queen of soul, Jennifer Hudson comports herself as well as could be hoped considering the material she’s been…

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Review of The Last Mercenary (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Jul 2021

The quality of the fight sequences, the main criterion by which we judge a Van Damme picture, tops out at competency; only a showdown incorporating…

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Charles Bramesco has written reviews for:

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Guardian (4,584)
Rolling Stone (4,035)
The Playlist (3,871)
Indiewire (3,631)
Little White Lies (3,136)
The Guardian (2,969)
AV Club (2,778)
The Dissolve (1,478)
Consequence of Sound (1,431)

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