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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Dashcam | Review

Arrhythmia of the Night: Savage Triumphs with Delightfully Bizarre Socio-Horror There’s an art to successful presentations of unlikeable characters, further complicated when a protagonist is...

After Blue (Dirty Paradise) | Review

Taste of a Toxic Paradise: Mandico Casts a Dark Spell with Broody Sci-Fi Through a variety of short films, music videos (including several for M83),...

Top Gun: Maverick | Review

Take My Guilt Away: Kosinski Avoids Cruise Control in Enjoyable Action Sequel Against all odds, especially considering how unnecessary a sequel seems to be...

Masquerade | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Bedos Takes the Grift Shift in French Riviera Crime Caper For a film opening with W. Somerset Maugham’s line, “The French Riviera...

Un petit frère (Mother and Son) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Life in Rouen: Serraille Stacks Perspectives in Muted Tale of Immigration and Identity After taking home the Camera d’Or for her 2017 feature Jeune Femme,...

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Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...
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