Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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Blonde | Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 15, 2022

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl: Dominik Explores Our Assassination of Iconicity There’s no human who’s quite bedazzled the zeitgeist like Marilyn Monroe, the most...

Chiara | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 9, 2022

Sister and Her Sisters: Nicchiarelli Salutes a Saint in Solemn, Dull Period Reenactment The friendship between Saint Francis of Assisi and his obscured female counterpart...

Our Ties (Les Miens) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 9, 2022

Fit to Be Tied: Zem Scuffles with Family Matters in Slight Drama For his sixth film as director, celebrated actor Roschdy Zem assembles a notable...

The Listener | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 9, 2022

Phone Call from a Stranger: Buscemi Conducts a Conduit of Trauma in Striking One-Woman Show Conjuring everything from Jean Cocteau to T.S. Eliot, Steve Buscemi...

The Damned Don’t Cry | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 8, 2022

A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother: Boulifa Explores Complex Symbiosis in Mother-Son Drama Although it’s cribbing the title of a 1950 Joan Crawford starrer,...

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