Charles Bramesco

Select another critic »
IndieWire, Polygon, The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, The Dissolve, The Guardian, The Playlist
For 180 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Charles Bramesco's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 52
Highest review score: 100 Mrs. Miniver
Lowest review score: 0 Roe v. Wade
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 180
  2. Mixed: 85 out of 180
  3. Negative: 41 out of 180
180 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Bramesco
    The Naked Gun
    The by-any-means-necessary bit barrage crams sight gags into the corners of frames, the credits, the infinitesimal space within edits. In a film that nobly aspires to everything being funny at all times, anything can be, the chief benefit of director Akiva Schaffer’s attention to and appreciation for the elements of cinematic form. You’ve got to be smart to be this stupid.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Bramesco
    Mrs. Miniver
    An increasingly loud world may have made the quiet truths of "Mrs. Miniver" seem small - tune out the noise and hear what this film is saying. It's a roadmap for how dignity and freedom can survive.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Bramesco
    High Life
    With an achievement of this calibre it’s hard to resist hyperbole: High Life contains the single greatest one-person sex scene in the history of cinema.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Bramesco
    Knives Out
    The genre maestro has his audience in good hands, “good” in this instance meaning both “skilled, capable, expert” and “decent, ethically sound.” He’s assembled a dazzling contraption that, if twisted in just the right way, pops open to reveal a nugget of wisdom crystallized by the cathartic final shot: we only really own what we earn.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Bramesco
    Nosferatu
    Its entwined torrents of pain and pleasure chart the boundaries of sensation in a buttoned-up age, and allow us back in the present to be scandalized by its raw, visceral (in the definitional, from-the-guts sense) hungers as if for the very first time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Charles Bramesco
    Passages
    Adroit casting, writing, editing, performing and costuming shade the outline of an affair to a finely sharpened emotional realism, the cycles of fighting and reconciling we’ve all seen before regaining in rawness as if we’re now the ones living through it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 91 Charles Bramesco
    Prototype
    There’s a lot to ponder in Prototype, not least in the confounding coda that suggests a note of hope for rebirth, but the film’s powers are visceral as much as (if not more so than) they are cerebral.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Charles Bramesco
    The Twentieth Century
    Rankin’s ambitious thesis on how idiocy, horny neuroses, and pure chance come to sculpt the geopolitical narrative never gets bogged down by the social-studies minutia. He throws one dazzling diversion after another at his audience.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Charles Bramesco
    Flux Gourmet
    This is Strickland’s grand act of prestidigitation; he coaxes out something like poignancy from the peculiar, just as he conjures the visceral and unknowable from ordinary groceries.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Charles Bramesco
    Kirikou and the Sorceress
    Ocelot’s joyous mashup is a work of uncommonly vivid imagination, sharing space with Yellow Submarine, Fantastic Planet, and The Triplets Of Belleville in the omnivorous grade-schooler’s alt-canon.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Charles Bramesco
    May December
    Just because something’s make-believe, whether a creative rendering or the quotidian detail of a marriage, that doesn’t mean it’s any less real. With his masterly manipulation of tone and perspective, Haynes ensures that we can feel that much even as the characters can’t bear to accept it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    About Endlessness
    While Andersson has continued in his signature style for this coda, erecting pallid beige-and-grey backlot dioramas with a painterly eye for crowded composition, he repurposes the technique toward a newfound elegiac, gentle register.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Sanctuary
    Wigon’s sleek, seductive drama — as contained and actor-driven as a stage play, though shot so expressively that it could only be cinema — breaks down this pairing just to build it back up from scratch, testing the viability of a connection rooted in guarded performance as it crawls on all fours toward a more open, authentic intimacy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    True History of the Kelly Gang
    Kurzel’s prismatic view of Kelly’s life and times goes to gnarlier and more vivid places than superficially similar period pieces.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Crimes of the Future
    Just as [Cronenberg’s] characters can live in a suspended state of rot, he can thrive within a world and culture in its death throes. In his reenergized perspectives on degeneration, he’s created one last safe haven for his fellow degenerates.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    A Chiara
    He’s not quite deconstructing the gangster picture, but he succeeds in draining all its allure.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Reality
    Ultimately, it’s Sweeney’s show, and she excels in locating small crannies of tacit detail within these offhanded lines.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Copshop
    Carnahan’s formal proficiency makes for a more sharpened and accomplished piece of work than many modern counterparts attempting to draw from the same well of cheap-o homage. That sense of precision doesn’t detract from the down-and-dirty fun, either; everyone on screen appears to be having the time of their lives gnawing on the rare slab of beef they’ve been thrown.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    This whoopie cushion of a film raises the concept of the lowest common denominator up to the highest highs of esoteric tastes and in doing so, gets closer to the essence of artistry than all of its self-important, straight-faced forebears.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Sound of Metal
    Marder believes devoutly in the power of actors and acting, preferring to get out of the way and let them show their stuff. Ahmed returns the favor by delivering career-best work by a wide margin.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    The Way Back
    Between the known metatext and Affleck’s bone-deep commitment, this moving central performance largely purges the film of its high potential for the maudlin.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Honeyland
    Though Honeyland is also about what it’s about; in addition to underscoring another inconvenient truth with planetary stakes, the film offers tender, patient portraiture to a woman wholly dedicated to her calling. The melding of the political with the personal has seldom involved so many stingers to the face.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Club Zero
    Taken as a bone-dry satirical comedy, this would be a cruelly glib treatment of material sensitive enough to merit a trigger warning in bright yellow prior to the opening credits. But this agonizing tour through private agony deserves to be taken more seriously than that.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Cobweb
    Cobweb might just fill you with the sadistic glee that you can only get from horror films that push the boundaries of the genre. It’s not perfect. Hell, it might not even be “good.” But Cobweb is an absolute delight and a blast to watch.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Charles Bramesco
    Bad Education
    Jackman shines, teasing us with suggestions of just how deep his performance runs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Bramesco
    Stonehearst Asylum
    Between its distinctly modern intelligence and razor-sharp plotting, Anderson’s clever contraption matches the heights of Gothic grandeur that keep Poe held in esteem today.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Charles Bramesco
    Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth
    We all share universals like hurt and hope, it’s just that their expression differs for McConnell. Like the act of childbirth itself, something that has happened trillions of times and yet always feels intimately personal, he’s one of us and one of a kind.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Bramesco
    Broker
    Everyone’s reaching for a system of support. In most cases, allowed by Koreeda with admirable generosity, they can latch on to one another.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Bramesco
    The Green Knight
    David Lowery’s complex, visually sumptuous and uncommercial tale of Arthurian legend revels in upending expectations.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Bramesco
    Neptune Frost
    Williams and Uzeyman work in a mode of rich ideas and vibes, both so plentiful that the narrative obliqueness feels less alienating and more like an inviting challenge. It earns the attention it demands.
prev
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »