Our humble festival correspondent on Uncut Gems, Honey Boy, The Laundromat, Waves, The Report, No. 7 Cherry Lane, and the second half of TIFF 2019. Read More
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Charles Bramesco is a former staff writer for Rolling Stone and his writing has previously appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, The A.V. Club, Vulture, The Dissolve, and Pitchfork. He lives in Brooklyn, is a graduate of New Orleans’ Tulane University, and his favorite film is Boogie Nights.
I told the almost comically friendly customs agent that I’m in Canada for business and not pleasure, so in the interest of not getting apprehended by the mounties, my top priority remains the almighty cinema. Read More
"While this critic’s average number of films taken in at the TIFF usually hovers around 30, the 2018 festival delivered the highest percentage yet of selections I could recommend in good faith." Read More
Your loyal critic-on-the-scene returns this year older and wiser, having finally gotten the hang of this 10-day endurance test in his fourth go-round. Read More
Our intrepid TIFF correspondent wraps up his festival coverage with a look at new films from Guillermo del Toro, James Franco, Agnes Varda, Armando Iannucci, Martin McDonagh, and Louis C.K. Read More
Midway through the festival, our intrepid correspondent offers his thoughts and recommendations Read More
I went in expecting a porno, but was surprised to encounter a swirling torrent of psychosexual terror. Read More
In Margaret, Lonergan assembles a titanic analogy between the pain of a nation and one girl’s post-traumatic chaos, arriving at the same gray-shaded ambiguity and uncertainty. Read More
Charles Bramesco attends TIFF. Read More
Superbad is a film that exists outside of place, unstuck in America, nowhere and everywhere. Read More