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Brandon Nowalk

About Brandon Nowalk

Brandon Nowalk is a freelance film and TV critic whose work has appeared on The A.V. Club, Entertainment Weekly, Indiewire, Salon, and more.

Call Me by Your Name, Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Luca Guadagnino

Brandon Nowalk / December 14, 2017

Keeping a straight face: How CMBYN‘s queer characters get misread

Call Me by Your Name is the latest in a long line of same-sex romances to have its queer characters diminished as empty vessels, yet this couldn’t be further from the truth. This essay is featured in the ebook Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue which is available for purchase here.

Neruda, Pablo Larraín

Brandon Nowalk / December 16, 2016

Review: Neruda — Bard on the run

Pablo Larraín’s dizzying chase film, Neruda, chronicles the poet’s year in hiding and the fictional detective on his tail.

Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes

Brandon Nowalk / March 10, 2016

Arabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era Portugal

Arabian Nights is the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive. It’s an enormous six-hour movie split into three volumes, made up mostly of separate smaller stories.

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