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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Tokyo Tribe | Review

Why Don’t You Play in the Streets?: Sono’s Overblown Street War Musical Many consider Sion Sono to be Takashi Miike’s succeeding enfant terrible, both in...

The Sound and the Fury | Review

But a Walking Shadow: Franco’s Faulkner Redux Merely Serviceable Continuing to thumb his nose at naysayers, James Franco plunges onward into his own particular directorial...

Jason and Shirley | Review

Holliday Heart: Winter Reimagines the Peripheral Flotsam and Jetsam of Famed Interview The nagging obscurity of Shirley Clarke’s famed 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason remains...

Rock the Kasbah | Review

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World: Levinson’s Afghan Exploration Prizes Diversion After a unique pit stop in found footage horror with 2012’s The Bay...

Suffragette | Review

Female Misbehavior: Gavron’s Noble Depiction of British Women’s Suffrage Movement There’s much to admire in Sarah Gavron’s sophomore directorial effort, Suffragette, a turn-of-the-century snapshot of...

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