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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After Blue (Dirty Paradise) | Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 31, 2022

Taste of a Toxic Paradise: Mandico Casts a Dark Spell with Broody Sci-Fi Through a variety of short films, music videos (including several for M83),...

Top Gun: Maverick | Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 31, 2022

Take My Guilt Away: Kosinski Avoids Cruise Control in Enjoyable Action Sequel Against all odds, especially considering how unnecessary a sequel seems to be...

Masquerade | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 29, 2022

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Bedos Takes the Grift Shift in French Riviera Crime Caper For a film opening with W. Somerset Maugham’s line, “The French Riviera...

Un petit frère (Mother and Son) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 28, 2022

Life in Rouen: Serraille Stacks Perspectives in Muted Tale of Immigration and Identity After taking home the Camera d’Or for her 2017 feature Jeune Femme,...

Leila’s Brothers | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 26, 2022

How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Roustayi Ponders Poverty in Familial Melodrama “Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it...

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