Review: Cook County

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Cook County


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“What bogs down Cook County beyond repair is an undeniable lack of clarity and absence of focus, bouncing around like a narrative whose tragic finale was conceived well before the avenues it would take to get there were planned. While the three male leads all give noteworthy performances as drug addled urchins with no direction home, the father/son relationship between Abe and Sonny feels underwritten.”

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Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell
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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