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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Shallow Grave(s): Revenge Twice Told in Zarchi’s Landmark “I Spit on Your Grave” Blu-ray Box Set Review

Chances are, if you’re familiar with grindhouse/exploitation films of the 1970s or the output of later auteurs these titles influenced, you’ve heard and likely...

Collective | Review

The Fire Next Time: Nanau Finds Homegrown Corruption in Scandalous Expose The importance of actual investigation journalism is presented in all its full-blown glory with...

Run [Video Review]

Dial M for Munchausen: Chaganty Beams the Gaslight in Gratifying Sophomore Film The sanctity of motherhood becomes a questionable axiomatic in Run, the sophomore film...

Happiest Season [Video Review]

Harper’s Bizarre: DuVall Reinvents the Queerness of Holiday Traditions Across a wide variety of genres and narratives, going home for the holidays, and the intended...

Echo Boomers | Review

Millennium Albatross: Savoy Skirts Surfaces in Glossy Essay on Ills of Capitalism If you’re looking for an honest portrayal of the widely accepted generational rift...

Breaking

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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