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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Where Do We Go Now? | Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 10, 2012

Nadine Labaki Gives Peace a Chance Caramel director Nadine Labaki returns with her sophomore effort, the much hailed Where Do We Go Now?, a trite...

I Wish | Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 9, 2012

Why Did Those Days Ever Have To Go?: Wishmaster Koreeda’s Closely Watched Train Master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns once again to child protagonists for his...

Tonight, You’re Mine | Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 9, 2012

Mackenzie’s Music Concert DocuRomCom Has All the Chemistry of an Arranged Marriage. David Mackenzie’s second title from 2011, Tonight, You’re Mine opens only several weeks...

Criterion Collection: David Lean Directs Noel Coward | Blu-ray Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 8, 2012

Before directing some of the greatest epic films ever made, David Lean’s directorial career began in the 1940’s, when he collaborated with playwright Noel...

A Little Bit of Heaven | Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 3, 2012

Cancer Eats More Than Just Kate Hudson’s Colon in Kassell’s Emotional Porn After her excellent 2004 feature debut The Woodsman, Nicole Kassell finally returns with...

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