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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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...

Mother’s Baby | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 18, 2025

Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby: Moder Repeats Motherhood Horrors A palpable, instinctual fascination with the potential horrors of pregnancy are exactly why neonatal dread...

Blue Moon | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 18, 2025

The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing: Linklater Pays Homage to a Broken Hart Lorenz Hart was a lonely hunter. If you believe you haven’t heard of...

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