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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Continental Drift (South) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Conventional Liaisons: Baier Leans into the Comedy of Crisis Through Familial Rift Swiss director Lionel Baier completes the third section of an intended four part...

Men | Review

Take Back the Fright: Garland Returns with Cryptic Fable on Trenchant Misogyny The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women, which notably featured...

Marcel! | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Dog Gone: Trinca Debuts Pleasant Semi-autobiographical Dramedy “I’m devoted to divination,” sniffs a haughty Alba Rohrwacher as a self-centered mother in Jasmine Trinca’s directorial debut,...

Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

I’m Not One of Your Fans: Desplechin Delivers Camp Classic with Failed Melodrama No one depicted in Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister), the latest...

Goutte d’Or (Son of Ramses) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Sun of a Gun: Cogitore Returns with Cryptic Drama on Violence, Exploitation France’s Clément Cogitore is clearly a fan of the mysterious and inexplicable sinews...

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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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