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Charles Bramesco

Charles Bramesco is a film and television critic living in Brooklyn

August 2024

  • A shirtless man looks determined as he steers a sailboat's steering wheel

    Dark summer: why film noirs often work better in the sunshine

    A new collection of classics, from Niagara to Purple Noon, reminds us that the darkest acts can occur in broad daylight

July 2024

  • 1974, DEATH WISH<br>Charles Bronson gets his own back while maintaining his impasssive visage in a still from the film Death Wish (1974), directed By Michael Winner.

    Death Wish at 50: a reactionary and repugnant revenge thriller

    Michael Winner’s violent 1974 thriller demonized inner-city living and rationalised bloody revenge, a film that still acts as a telling Republican text
  • This image released by Neon shows Lauren Acala in a scene from "Longlegs." (Neon via AP)

    Inner demons: grappling with childhood trauma in horror movies

    Longlegs, from writer-director Osgood Perkins and son of Psycho star Anthony, tells a story that gives us clues to its maker’s unusual upbringing
  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

    A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

June 2024

  • "Mean Streets" Screening - 2024 Tribeca Festival<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 15: (L-R) Nas, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro speak onstage at the "Mean Streets" Screening during the 2024 Tribeca Festival at Beacon Theatre on June 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

    ‘To me, Manhattan is the universe’: Scorsese and De Niro reunite on stage

  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, Simba in The Lion King and Nancy Allen in Blow Out.

    ‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths

  • Five people sit in a row as they look and smile at each other, the woman in the middle holding a microphone

    The Sopranos cast reunites in New York City: ‘Everyone up here, that’s a family’

  • Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto in Blue Collar.

    Paul Schrader: cinema’s unfiltered, unsparing and uncompromised auteur

May 2024

  • Daisy Ridley in Young Woman and the Sea.

    Young Woman and the Sea review – Disney’s surface-level swimming biopic lacks depth

  • hand holding a red card that says moviepass

    ‘This sounded a little fishy’: the dramatic rise and fall of MoviePass

  • A composite of five images: a young white couple canoodling on a park bench, a scary white mask in a black hood, a white man holding up a young white woman's arm on a stage as if she's just won something, a white man on a motorcycle speeding on a road, and a cartoon cowboy.

    Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

  • Morgan Spurlock in Super Size Me

    Super Size Me: the film that sounded a fast-food alarm in America

  • The Garfield Movie review – foul feline origin tale is littered with product placement

  • Hollywood hysteria: the 60s movies that showed a time of madness

April 2024

  • conan stands next to man in hot dog suit

    Hilarious, defiant and unabashedly weird: Conan O’Brien hasn’t lost an iota of his underdog brilliance

    After three decades on air, the comedian has a new travel show. For comedy nerds, he remains their guy on the inside
  • two people in vests that say press

    Civil War is an empty B-movie masquerading as something of substance

    Charles Bramesco
    Alex Garland’s speculative and apolitical action film might be a box office hit but it’s a frustratingly weightless experience
  • Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s 12th season.

    ‘Larry’s secretly a lovely man’: Curb Your Enthusiasm stars spill the beans – for their final ever episode

    They’ve torn up the rulebook, left no taboo unbroken and freestyled one of the greatest comedies ever. As the finale airs, the Curb team reveal all about success, Springsteen – and Larry David’s soft side

March 2024

  • man standing in front of a cinema with crowds behind him

    William Shatner: ‘Good science fiction is humanity, moved into a different milieu’

    Ahead of a new documentary, You Can Call Me Bill, the Star Trek icon shares his eternal interest in learning more about the world
  • ‘He got along with people, fabulously, even ones who were said to be difficult’ … Gene Wilder in 1979

    Remembering Gene Wilder: new documentary sheds light on a comedy titan

    A new film uses the late actor’s voice to illustrate a career of neurotic humor on the big screen and a gentleness in real life
  • Color movie still of four men dressed as rockers.

    This Is Spinal Tap at 40: the note-perfect rock satire still goes up to 11

    Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner made a 1984 classic that ingeniously straddles the ‘fine line between stupid and clever’
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