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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Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities with “Synonyms” | Blu-ray Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 25, 2020

Winning the Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Nadav Lapid’s third film Synonyms was one of the best theatrical releases of...

Another Old Dark House: Larraz Gets Derivative with Final English Language Title Deadly Manor (1990) | Blu-ray Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 25, 2020

Arrow Video continues to reconstitute the filmography of Spanish genre filmmaker Jose Ramon Larraz with his final English language thriller, Deadly Manor (originally released...

Greed | Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 24, 2020

In a Rich Man’s World: Winterbottom Wobbles with Elementary Satire Perennial British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who has presented a number of different narratives across...

All the Dead Ones | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 24, 2020

Turn and Face the Strange: Caetano & Gotardo Navigate Displacement in Stellar Period Piece The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women read “It’s...

The Assistant | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 23, 2020

Executive Suite: Green Metes Modern Monsters in Narrative Debut Documentarian Kitty Green (last on hand with her unique memory tapestry Casting JonBenet, 2017) moves into...

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