Contributions from Charles Bramesco | Little White Lies

Contributor Charles Bramesco

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Review

Barbarian

by Charles Bramesco

A hol­i­day rental turns into a night­mare for a young woman in Zach Creg­ger’s hor­ror debut.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Ticket to Paradise

by Charles Bramesco

George Clooney and Julia Roberts take to Bali in a hol­low-heart­ed reminder of why the mod­ern rom­com is in decline.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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Incoming

A coalition of actors wants to change how Hollywood sees hair

by Charles Bramesco

Front­ed by Ker­ry Wash­ing­ton, Zoe Kravitz, and Rosario Daw­son, the CROWN Act for­bids dis­crim­i­na­tion against nat­ur­al hair.
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Festivals

Personality Crisis: One Night Only — first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

New York Dolls front­man David Johansen takes the stage in Mar­tin Scors­ese’s lat­est music doc.
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Incoming

Radical artist Nan Goldin takes on opioid barons in the All the Beauty and the Bloodshed trailer

by Charles Bramesco

Lau­ra Poitras’ doc­u­men­tary chron­i­cles Gold­in’s cam­paign of grass­roots activism against the Sack­ler family.
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Festivals

A Cooler Climate – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

James Ivory rem­i­nisces about a youth­ful year spent in Afghanistan with this cozy archival documentary.
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Incoming

Pope of trash John Waters will return to directing with an adaptation of his own novel

by Charles Bramesco

Liar­mouth: A Feel-Bad Romance marks Waters’ first time behind the cam­era in 18 years.
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Festivals

Mutzenbacher – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Ruth Beck­er­mann enlists a hun­dred men to read pas­sages from the con­tro­ver­sial 19th cen­tu­ry nov­el Jose­fine Mutzen­bach­er: The Life Sto­ry of a Vien­nese Whore.
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Festivals

Coma — first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Bertrand Bonel­lo’s bounc­ing off the walls in this free-asso­cia­tive grab-bag of ear­ly lock­down anxieties.
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Incoming

What is Luca Guadagnino adding to his extended cut of A Bigger Splash?

by Charles Bramesco

The direc­tor’s cut, titled An Even Big­ger Splash, will restore 70 min­utes of footage cut from the film. To what effect?