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Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles
As seen in: IONCINEMA, Medium, Yahoo Entertainment, Aol, Flipboard, SPIN, Kyiv Post
Chief film critic and reporter for www.ioncinema.com IG: RagingBells
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The Wizard of the Kremlin | Review

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By Nicholas Bell
| IONCINEMA
The Russians Are Killing the Russians Are Killing: Assayas Bungles Political Espionage Of the many significant issues severely hobbling The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest film from French auteur Olivier Assayas, the most egregious is how incredibly stupid it believes its audience to be. Characters freely interpret for us the meaning behind every moment, like professors lecturing us through interpretive stage dialogue.
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The Dreamed Adventure | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

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By Nicholas Bell
| IONCINEMA
The Era of Men: Valeska Dredges the Darkness of the Past There’s an essence of Valeska Grisebach’s cinema which makes one feel as if it’s playing out in real-time, arguably a detriment as the sometimes sinister, sometimes sublime elements of her narratives can evaporate or be eclipsed by the time taken to get where she’s going. Nearly a decade after 2017’s Western (read review), she returns with the promise of something softer in The Dreamed Adventure.
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The Birthday Party (Histoires de la nuit) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

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By Nicholas Bell
| IONCINEMA
Bird on a Wire: The Past Haunts the Present in Mysius’ Thriller For her third feature film, Histoires de la nuit (aka The Birthday Party), writer/director Léa Mysius once again plays with genre conventions, intrigued by characters who have desperately tried to outrun the ravages of a toxic past through a complete overhaul of their identity.
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