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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Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Review

The Unexpected Virtue of Indulgence: Iñárritu Repeats Himself with Repetitive, Soulless Extravaganza “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple,” said Oscar...

Holy Spider | Review

Thrill Crazy. Kill Crazy. God Crazy: Abbasi Tackles Brutal Reality of Women and Islamofascism “Every man shall meet what he wishes to avoid,” is the...

Call Jane | Review

It Could Happen To You: Nagy Recuperates the Resiliency of Women in Sophisticated Melodrama Camille Paglia, with her signature dramatic panache, might be among those...

Armageddon Time | Review

A Great White Hype: Gray Explores the Farce of the American Dream in Coming of Age Portrait Where are we going? Where have we been?...

Peaceful (De son vivant) | Review

The Big C Minus: Bercot Submerges Maudlin Disease Drama with Sentimentality Cancer isn’t the only element degrading the lives of those defined by it in...

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