Charles Bramesco

Charles Bramesco is a freelance film and TV critic living in Brooklyn. A former staff writer for Rolling Stone, he's been featured in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Guardian, and many other fine publications. His second book, Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes, will be published in the US on March 14, 2023.

All Articles From Charles Bramesco

Is This How It Ends for Roy Andersson?

In "About Endlessness," the 78-year-old director delivers something he hasn't for a long time: a glimmer of optimism

Remembering “Josie and the Pussycats,” the Last Bastion of Pop Cynicism

Now 20 years old, Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont's film still reads as a slyly subversive commentary on the slow, corporate death of popular music

“Shiva Baby” Is a Hilarious Treatise on the Pains of Being a Millennial

Director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott talk sugar babies, career anxiety and the definition of Jewish comedy

It's Time to Pay the Queen of Sexploitation the Respect She Deserves

Doris Wishman is the most prolific female filmmaker who ever lived. So how come no one knows her name?

The Future of Hollywood Belongs to Lakeith Stanfield

His turn as an FBI informant in “Judas and the Black Messiah” is the latest in a string of generation-defining performances

The First Great Film of 2021 Attempts to Drink Away the Male Midlife Crisis

A group of friends embark on a journey of “controlled alcoholism” in Thomas Vinterberg's “Another Round”

What Draws So Many Boomers to America's Largest Retirement Community?

More than 130,000 seniors take up residence at Orlando's The Villages. A new documentary sets out to understand what brought them there.

Who Is George Clooney, Director, Anyway?

Toward a definition of a reliable but middling auteurial career

Remembering “Heat” for What It Was: The Most Homoerotic Film of the ’90s

Nominally it's an action movie, but the simmering tension between De Niro and Pacino belongs to another genre

Is David Fincher’s “Mank” a Netflix Psy-Op? An Investigation.

There’s an intentionality to be ascribed to Netflix’s choice to give a green light to a script that the director himself confesses all the other studios passed on

Revisiting 1980, The Year the Movies Killed Disco

"Xanadu" and "Apple" have both gained a cult following for their woeful depictions of a movement past its prime

“Hillbilly Elegy” and the Rise of the Award-Season Thirst Trap

Why did Amy Adams and Glenn Close choose to do such a bad movie? For the Oscar.

Surrealist Masterpiece “The Twentieth Century” Might Be the Best Film of 2020

Director Matthew Rankin discusses his brilliant “Heritage Minute from Hell"

Sofia Coppola’s DIY Debut Was a Towering Monument to Gen-X Malaise

In 1994, Comedy Central gave Sofia Coppola a contract. She gave them "Hi-Octane."

25 Years Later, It’s Obvious We Got “Showgirls” All Wrong

Former "Saved by the Bell" star Elizabeth Berkley's performance nearly torpedoed her entire career

How "Sexy Beast" Reinvented the Heist Film

Twenty years later, Jonathan Glazer's debut remains a singular triumph within the genre