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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Wolfwalkers | Review

The Call of the Wild: Moore Crafts Exceptional Animated Odyssey in Third Outing Another example of how rich cultural subtexts can be reformatted for profound...

Mangrove | Review

All for Notting Hill: McQueen Paints the Power of Resistance in Period Courtroom Drama The first of five installments from Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology,...

The Giant | Review

Dream a Little Dream: Raboy Broods on Bruised Memories with Moody, Slender Narrative Crackling thunder, roiling clouds on a purple sky and electric tendrils of...

Sleepless Beauty [Video Review]

To Sleep, Perchance to Scream: Khvaleev Gets Re-creative with Mind Control Mind control is the name of the game in Sleepless Beauty, the fourth feature...

The Climb [Video Review]

Such Great Heights: Covino & Marvin Mine the Nexus of Toxic Friendships Friendships between heterosexual men are already an anomaly in cinema, and representations are...

Breaking

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...
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