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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Planetarium | Review

Night of the Shooting Stars: Zlotowski’s Mysterious Glance at a World on a Wire As one character observes to another upon a chance reunion in...

Good Time | Review

White is Right: Pattinson Shines in the Grime of the Safdie Bros. Urban Squalor American indie directors Joshua and Ben Safdie craft their most polished...

The Moderns (1988) | Review

Bujold’s last appearance with Alan Rudolph is in 1988’s The Moderns, a high-minded, sometimes amusing attempt to examine the potent ex-pat community of 1920s...

Trouble in Mind (1985) | Review

One of Alan Rudolph’s most idiosyncratic films is 1985’s Trouble in Mind, which features a buzzy ensemble of characters intersecting in the fictional Rainy...

Choose Me (1984) | Review

Of their three collaborations, the most intriguing Alan Rudolph film to feature Bujold is 1984’s Choose Me, which more or less focuses on two...

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