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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Argentina, 1985 | Review

Orders from Above: Mitre Recounts Landmark Trial in Lengthy Courtroom Procedural In 1976, Isabel Perón, wife of the deceased Juan Perón, was deposed as the...

Don’t Worry Darling | Review

Die, Die, My Darling: Wilde Makes Utopia a Dirty Word in Sinister Thriller “There’s beauty in control” affirms a suave Svengali at the center...

Petrov’s Flu | Review

Delirium Tremens: Serebrennikov Maddens with Post-Soviet Magical Realism Historically, Russian cinema (and literature) always tends to go for broke. Challenging narratives, endless characters, and opulent...

Athena | Review

The World is (Not) Yours: Gavras Clumsily Tackles Civil Unrest, Police Brutality Recalling elements of his father Costa-Gavras’ most iconic film, Z (1969), Romain Gavras...

The Silent Twins | Review

Sistas With(out) Voices: Smoczynska Revisits Case Study of Antisocial Twins Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczynska makes her English language debut with third feature The Silent Twins, based...

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