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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Triangle of Sadness | Review

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Nicholas Bell - October 6, 2022

Voyage of the Damned: Östlund Frowns Down Upon Hardwired Human Folly in Devious Satire Ruben Östlund has built an impressive filmography satirizing social norms, with...

Criterion Collection: Mr. Klein (1976) | Blu-ray Review

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Nicholas Bell - October 4, 2022

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette (1976), a venomous marital melodrama, a character played by Margit Carstensen provocatively inquires, “Who would this person have...

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon | Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 29, 2022

The Moon in the Gutter: Amirpour Shoots for the Moon and Misses For her third directorial outing, Ana Lily Amirpour remains fascinated with B-movie grunge...

God’s Creatures | Review

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Nicholas Bell - September 29, 2022

Come On, Aileen: Holmer & Davis Craft Old-Fashioned, Straightforward Thriller Parents lying to protect their children’s potentially heinous crimes is a popular motif in arthouse...