Contributor Charles Bramesco

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Review

Cairo Conspiracy

by Charles Bramesco

Tarik Saleh’s latest sees the election of a new Grand Imam take place in Egypt’s most prestigious university for Islamic scholarship.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Incoming

Life is plastic and fantastic in the first Barbie trailer

by Charles Bramesco

Margot Robbie dons a great many outfits as the iconic children’s plaything in Greta Gerwig's technicolour dreamland.
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Scott Pilgrim is back in action, now in anime form

by Charles Bramesco

The cast of Edgar Wright's film adaptation has reunited for a Netflix miniseries about the mild-mannered, ex-dueling Torontonian.
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Everything we know so far about Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

by Charles Bramesco

Spanish desert doubles for the American Southwest in the new film set at a stargazers' convention.
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Incoming

The solution to cinema’s curation conundrum? More, more, more

by Charles Bramesco

Are streaming channels limiting our movie selection? Only as much as we let them!
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Review

A Good Person

by Charles Bramesco

Auteur Zach Braff puts then-girlfriend Florence Pugh through it in the opioid-addiction drama.

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Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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Incoming

Everyone, just let Quentin Tarantino cook

by Charles Bramesco

Is his new film about a movie critic a stealth Pauline Kael biopic? Maybe! Who knows?
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A brief history of the “legacy Oscar” and its winners

by Charles Bramesco

Some voters informally consider the Academy Award a career-long acknowledgement; some actors resent this.
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Festivals

Croisette wishes: 20 films we’d like to see at Cannes in 2023

by Charles Bramesco

Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Pedro Almodóvar number among the heavy hitters expected on the red carpet.
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Incoming

It’s time for action in the explosive first trailer for How to Blow Up a Pipeline

by Charles Bramesco

A cross-cultural coalition plots to disrupt an oil supply chain in Daniel Goldhaber's galvanizing new film.

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