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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Vermiglio | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Baby Machines: Delpero Designs Tapestry of Women’s Miseries During WWII Italy Despite the associations suggested by its title, Maura Delpero’s sophomore film Vermiglio is a...

The Room Next Door | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in...

I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship “The dictatorship’s mistakes was to torture but not kill,” former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proudly claimed...

The Brutalist | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

The Safety of Objectivism: Corbet Unleashes the Survival Instinct of Rational Egoism “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided...

The Order | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

The True Story of a Racist Gang: Kurzel Explores Formative Chapter of American Domestic Terrorism There’s a brooding, sinister quality to Justin Kurzel’s filmmaking, whose...

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