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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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Review

Wain’s World: Sharpe Presents Loving Portrait of an Artist It’s odd to reflect upon a time when felines weren’t regarded as a stereotypical domesticated fur...

The French Dispatch | Review

Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...

Dune | Review

Spice Up Your Life: Villeneuve Embarks with Somber Take on the Sci-Fi Classic The journey of Dune to the big screen has been an arduous...

Needle in a Timestack | Review

Stye of the Needle: Ridley Can’t Thread Conceptual Sci-Fi Time travel is tricky, especially when trying to effectively demonstrate its parameters and ramifications in narrative...

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Review

Flesh+Fantasy: Hamaguchi Harvests Regrets in Eloquent Triptych One of Japan’s most compelling and profound contemporary auteurs is Ryusuke Hamaguchi, a purveyor of the barely contained...

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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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