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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 …

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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. Read our interview with Larraín on …

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Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes

Brandon Nowalk / March 10, 2016

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

Brandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, …

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