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Review of SuperFly (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 11 Jun 2018

This high-gloss take on Gordon Parks Jr’s funky vision of the hustle goes so far into sheer, unabashed rap-video excess that calling it gratuitous…

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Review of Upgrade (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Guardian (4,584) on 30 May 2018

Whannell’s finite reserves of creativity have been meted out in an imbalance, going all in on world-building while giving the fight choreography…

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Review of Papillon (2017)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 22 May 2018

Hunnam and Malek both hold up their end of the deal…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 16 May 2018

The fans will most assuredly be appeased, and if nothing else, Han Solo will go down in Lucasfilm history as the movie that conclusively affirmed…

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Review of Climax (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 14 May 2018

It comes as no surprise, but Noé gonna Noé, and whether that's a positive or negative is an entirely personal distinction…

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Review of The House That Jack Built (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 14 May 2018

It's a rare and often unsettling experience to watch someone muscle through the ugly, imperfect work of therapy, and von Trier has splayed…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 14 May 2018

With this fiery work of righteous agitprop, Lee's chosen task is to connect the rose-colored racism of the remote past to the shameless bigotry…

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Review of The Outsider (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Guardian (4,584) on 08 Mar 2018

If the film's not going to interrogate the politics behind its core premise of an army man's quest to out-Asian actual Asian men, it's scarcely…

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Review of The Outsider (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 07 Mar 2018

It’s by no means impossible to carve a challenging, meaningful story out of difficult interchanges between the east and west…

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Review of Mute (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 23 Feb 2018

Watching Jones passively bob in the deep end of his imagination, a viewer longs for the compulsory baseline competence of the big studios –…

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Review of Mute (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 23 Feb 2018

Watching Jones passively bob in the deep end of his imagination, a viewer longs for the compulsory baseline competence of the big studios –…

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Review of Chris Rock: Tamborine (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Guardian (4,584) on 14 Feb 2018

Just how good is he…

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Review of A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jan 2018

While pretty consistently amusing, the film still suffers from a chronic case of Wikipediitis, recreating Kenney’s bullet-point moments as…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 18 Jan 2018

A film about rushing to meet a deadline that feels like it was made that way…

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Review of Dina (2017)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Dec 2017

Sweet without being sappy, the film extends an uncommon empathy to two characters that colder films (and, as we see, people) would treat as…

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Review of Stronger (2017)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 07 Dec 2017

Aside from a few mawkish missteps near the tail end, this film feels like the product of a confident, able and self-aware director…

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Review of Voyeur (2017)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Guardian (4,584) on 27 Nov 2017

Everyone's at cross purposes, the subjects' words as loaded with unspoken intent as the directors' damning comparative edits…

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Review of Thank You for Your Service (2017)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 23 Oct 2017

Hall’s marching in lockstep with a lengthy platoon of directors who have already blazed this same path through enemy territory…

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Review of Loving Pablo (2017)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Guardian (4,584) on 10 Sep 2017

The film places a greater focus on the notion of unwilling complicity than most in the gangster genre, but still struggles to produce much…

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Review of Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2019)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for Guardian (4,584) on 09 Sep 2017

This time, his journey doesn’t send him to the ends of experience…

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Charles Bramesco has written reviews for:

The A.V. Club (5,644)
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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