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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2019 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

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Nicholas Bell - January 24, 2019

Like many of the fourth quarter 2018 film festival circuit venues (Toronto, Venice, AFI), Sundance 2019 benefits from an overstuffed foreign film market, taking...

The Heiresses (Las herederas) | Review

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Nicholas Bell - January 18, 2019

Inherit the Wind: Martinessi Explores Class and Desire in Impressive Character Study While they seem to have outlived their best of times, the two privileged...

Close | Review

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Nicholas Bell - January 17, 2019

But No Cigar: Jewson’s Bodyguard Thriller Nary Skirts the Surface of Female Agency Director Vicky Jewson continues to mine the role of women working in...

Glass | Review

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Nicholas Bell - January 17, 2019

Walking on Broken Glass: Shyamalan Completes Superhero Trilogy with Chatty, Diagnostic Denouement For a film nineteen years in the making, M. Night Shyamalan’s highly anticipated...

Pity | Review

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Nicholas Bell - January 15, 2019

Help Me, I’m Poor: Makridis Adds a Footnote to the Greek Cinema Look no further than Babis Makridis’ sophomore feature, the bluntly named Pity, for...

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