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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The Color Wheel | Review

A roadtrip through the black and white heart of America

Review: Hipsters

"A sugary, bebop confection with ambling historical aspirations, the film feels like a time capsule picture that came out of the glamorous studio system; lots of melodrama strained over a lot of watered down issues. But that’s not to say that, despite a hefty running time and an escapist state of mind, you won’t have a toe tapping good time."

Review: The Double

Character motivations, sequences of events, and that thing called plausibility are all a bit offensively slapdash, starting with a title that’s trying to infer way more than it had the brains to set out to accomplish. The tagline reads, “Keep your enemies close,” but should include, “and your clichés closer.”

Hipsters | Review

Pumped Up Kicks

The Double | Review

All Toil and Trouble

Breaking

La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.
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