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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Ordinary Failures | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 5, 2022

It’s Only the End of the World: Groșan Navigates a Triptych of Displaced Women in Pre-Apocalyptic Intersection What’s perhaps most fitting about the commonalities between...

L’immensità | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 4, 2022

This Boy’s Life: Crialese Cuts Corners in Well-Meant Trans Coming-of-Age Drama Director Emanuele Crialese explores the slow disintegration of a dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome...

Blue Jean | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 3, 2022

Personal Best: Oakley Exhumes the Terror and Trauma of Life in the Shadow of the Iron Lady For her directorial debut, Blue Jean, Georgia Oakley...

Casa Susanna | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 3, 2022

The Enchanted Cottage: Lifshitz Salvages a Segment of Transgender History Although he began his directorial career in the vein of free-spirited indie narratives navigating the...

A Man (Aru Otoko) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 1, 2022

The Good Thief: Ishikawa Explores the Tenuous Reality of Identity As its elemental title suggests, Kei Ishikawa’s fourth film, A Man, asserts we can only...

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