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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La cache (The Safe House) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 20, 2025

May Days: Baier’s Broad Commentary on a Revolutionary Footnote “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,” said Eleanor Roosevelt. Dipping...

Timestamp | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 20, 2025

Schools of Survival: Gornostai Probes the Resiliency of Ukraine’s Education System During Wartime Despite reflecting the distressing normalization of wartime on an entire generation of...

Kontinental ’25 | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 19, 2025

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status Quo Ownership is an unsaid key word in Kontinental ’25, the latest perambulating spasm from Romanian...

Yunan | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 19, 2025

Nothing is Everything: Eldin’s Continuing Exploration of Existential Crisis For his sophomore film Yunan, intended as the second chapter in a thematic trilogy following 2021’s...

Dreams (Sex Love) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 19, 2025

Love on the Brain: Haugerud Caps Trilogy with Teenage Wasteland With his latest film Dreams (Sex Love) (aka Drømmer), the final installment in his thematic...

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