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Review of One Last Deal (2019)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 07 Sep 2018

Increasingly, the film takes on a lighter, rosy glow as Olavi's redemption pulls up in the rear, tending to enhance the artificiality of its…

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Review of Touch Me Not (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 05 Sep 2018

It's a frank, sometimes cathartic portrayal of intimacy and desire…

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Review of Hotel by the River (2019)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 05 Sep 2018

Hotel by the River may end up being strewn amongst [Hong Sangsoo's] extensive B-side items but it ends up being one of the director's more…

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Review of In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 05 Sep 2018

In the Mouth of Madness features some notable special effects and maintains some of its unsettling atmosphere thanks to its subversive, cerebral…

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Review of The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 05 Sep 2018

Olmos is devastating as the titular Gregorio Cortez…

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Review of A Thousand Acres (1997)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 05 Sep 2018

This is the type of perverse material which would have made a fine high-profile spectacle from the late 1950s or 60s, when its issues could…

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Review of Smithereens (1982)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 05 Sep 2018

If Smithereens feels like a first labor of love, it's even more endearing for it, stylistically akin to early titles by John Waters…

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Review of Marrowbone (2017)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Initially interesting, Marrowbone, despite its eerie title, ends up being a bit too tepid as it tries to balance too many vague tangents…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Interesting for some extreme choices but more often than not a bit turgid, Red Sparrow plays like a missed opportunity at something more malicious…

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Review of Mrs. Hyde (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Bozon delivers another example of his highly distinctive universe, and allows Huppert free reign, who seems to revel in playing a character…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Krasinksi proves an astutely skilled study in genre and manages to administer the difficult balance of emotional depth and high anxiety throughout…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Krasinksi proves an astutely skilled study in genre and manages to administer the difficult balance of emotional depth and high anxiety throughout…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Black Panther is performed with all the same tenor as a Shakespearean tragedy, issues of familial obligation, fate, and impossible rifts creating…

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Review of Hannah (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Achingly morose, Hannah is an arrhythmic piece of beautifully composed, carefully deliberated miserabilism…

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Review of Transit (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

A return to the bleakness of Petzold's work in the early 2000s, gone is the emotional heartbeat of his previous two films…

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Review of Wilde Salomé (2013)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

A nostalgic platform for both the writer and star's greatest past hits, here uneasily joined together in a mixed medium which doesn't quite…

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Review of Zama (2017)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

If Zama is an exercise in playing witness to hopelessness and restlessness, it results in anything but, and is further evidence of Martel's…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

This is a much scruffier, less streamlined narrative than what we've come to expect from Anderson, and as such, doesn't suffer from the weight…

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Review of Dovlatov (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

More a portrait of a period of increasing conservative ideologies than a justifiable biopic of a determined writer, Dovlatov proves German…

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Review of Come Sunday (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 26 Aug 2018

Takes on a sort of watered down pallor of an episode of Greenleaf but without the relieving moments of camp and narrative convenience…

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