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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Small Things like These | Review

All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

Youth (Homecoming) | Review

Last Train to Zhili: Bing Brings Youth Cycle to Circular Close Wang Bing completes his ‘Youth’ trilogy with finale Youth (Homecoming), which features the most...

Emilia Pérez | Review

Risky Business: Audiard Surprises with Vibrant Genre Musical Although it’s assembled from unlikely, even questionable sources, Jacques Audiard’s latest feature, Emilia Pérez, a genre...

Blitz | Review

London Has Fallen: McQueen Explores Life During Wartime Following his extensively researched 2023 documentary Occupied City, which details WWII atrocities waged against the Dutch during...

Youth (Hard Times) | Review

Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands Into the Gloom The middle part of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) perhaps more...

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