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Nathaniel Bell

Nathaniel Bell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Los Angeles Daily News film critic.

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Elevation (2024) 55% “This brand of graceful machismo, in which tender moments are balanced with explosions of badass violence, is Mackie’s stock-in-trade, and he wields it nimbly.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 13, 2024 Full Review Reagan (2024) 18% “The result is a political biopic with the heartbeat of a faith-based drama — earnest and aiming to inspire rather than provoke.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Green Border (2023) 93% “An urgent reminder that no matter where the borderlines are drawn, we are all responsible for each other. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jun 21, 2024 Full Review Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 91% “One of the most exciting and original films to emerge so far this year — a human-size thriller whose ecological message isn’t touted like a protest sign but is rather written into every shot and every note. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice May 8, 2024 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 63% “If the movie feels a bit more polished and polite than anything by Russ Meyer or Doris Wishman, it is still essentially a B-movie, unafraid of going for the lowbrow laugh. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Ordinary Angels (2024) 84% “The success of inspirational exercises like this one are largely contingent on the strength of the performances, and on that score, Ordinary Angels delivers. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Padre Pio (2022) 34% “Dedicated in the closing credits to the people of Ukraine, Padre Pio aims to restore a measure of faith, not in humanity, which is manifestly wicked, but in the person who suffered and died for all.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jul 7, 2023 Full Review Master Gardener (2022) 71% “If the whole is less than the sum of its parts, Master Gardener remains watchable, thanks largely to the confident, spartan construction and strong performances. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice May 29, 2023 Full Review Women Talking (2022) 90% “Women Talking may be the most accurately titled film to be released this year. Written and directed by Sarah Polley from a novel by Miriam Toews, the movie is essentially a chamber piece that seems tailor-made for the stage.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jan 3, 2023 Full Review Dead for a Dollar (2022) 54% “To make a film that espouses the timeworn virtues of a neglected American genre is one thing, but to offer it as a libation to one of its supreme stylists is quite another.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Dec 23, 2022 Full Review House of Darkness (2022) 59% “What pleasures House of Darkness provides in the way of patient, slow-burn suspense it lacks in thematic richness and surprise. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Dec 23, 2022 Full Review Fall (2022) 79% “But Fall’s main attraction, and the primary source of its visual pleasure, is the freestanding, red latticed tower itself, identified as the “B-67” and possibly inspired by the WHDH-온라인카지노추천 tower in Massachusetts.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Dec 23, 2022 Full Review The Black Phone (2022) 81% “The Black Phone delivers its quota of thrills while establishing empathy for its bullied and battered youngsters. It’s horror with a heart.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jun 24, 2022 Full Review Lux Æterna (2019) 64% “Noé may not understand God, Christianity, women, or Dreyer, but he’s clearly having lots of fun playing around with the symbols. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice May 28, 2022 Full Review Dual (2022) 71% “Creeping underneath the surface eccentricities are anxious, philosophically loaded questions about compassion., the opening scene is a duel between inconsequential characters is sufficiently violent in concept and execution to convey our fear of death. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Apr 25, 2022 Full Review Teacher (2019) 100% “Adam Dick wrote and directed this slow-burning low budget thriller.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Mar 5, 2022 Full Review The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% “If Macbeth comes across as self-consciously arty and occasionally juiceless it is because it lacks the initiative to transform, rather than simply render, the material.” – L.A. Weekly Jan 22, 2022 Full Review Belfast (2021) 86% “What it finally comes down to is a simple story of a family whose peace and stability are threatened by forces outside their control, and whose survival depends on a love that transcends material circumstances.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 20, 2021 Full Review The Power of the Dog (2021) 94% “Jane Campion's first feature in 12 years, is well worth the wait. A creepingly sinister drama set in 1924, the film is an exceptionally well made yet conservatively restrained historical piece.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 20, 2021 Full Review The Hand of God (2021) 84% “Viewers who stick around until the end will be rewarded with a thoughtful coda that deftly summarizes the director's equivocal worldview.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 20, 2021 Full Review The Souvenir Part II (2021) 90% “Even so, taken as a single work, this film is a significant achievement, a true and affecting portrait of artistic self-discovery. Love, loss, pleasure, pain-it's all part of life, it's all a kind of art.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 4, 2021 Full Review Bergman Island (2021) 84% “Bergman Island acknowledges the spiritual maelstrom that Bergman weathered-and worked out so powerfully in his cinema-as evidence of a life well examined and truly lived. The island bears witness to this testament.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 25, 2021 Full Review Cry Macho (2021) 58% “Each new film could plausibly be his last, so it's good to see the star ease up on the self-critiquing torment of his earlier pictures, electing to end not in a gun battle but in a slow dance.” – L.A. Weekly Sep 26, 2021 Full Review The Card Counter (2020) 88% “The spiritually arid universe that cinema currently inhabits is likely to receive The Card Counter as something fresh: an intellectually serious work by a seriously intellectual filmmaker.” – L.A. Weekly Sep 26, 2021 Full Review John and the Hole (2020) 59% “John and the Hole, a restrained but unsettling coming-of-age tale, that it takes the high road and stops a hair's breadth short of full-blown horror.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 13, 2021 Full Review
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