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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The Brutalist | 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 Room Next Door | 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...

Nickel Boys | Review

No Country for Black Men: Ross Reforms the Cinema with Distinctive Adaptation In many ways, Nickel Boys, the narrative debut from director RaMell Ross,...

The Order | 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...

Oh, Canada | Review

Pieces of a Man: Schrader Explores Atonement in Toned Down Adaptation Throughout his illustrious career as a director and screenwriter, Paul Schrader has specialized in...

Breaking

2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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