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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Dirty God | Review

A Woman’s Face: Polak’s Tender Melodrama Explores Struggle for Self-Love With her third narrative feature, Dirty God, which also stands as her English language debut,...

Kindred | Review

Gaslight of My Life: Marcantonio Debuts a Familiar Slice of Maternal Psychodrama “She giveth life and take it away” could have been a fitting tagline...

Jungleland [Video Review]

In Like a Lion: Winkler Traces Boxer on the Struggle Bus in Familiar Melodrama If you’re going to San Francisco, there might not be anymore...

Mortal [Video Review]

From the Norse’s Mouth: Ovredal Reclaims a Cultural Asset with Unsatisfactory Results Reclaiming ownership over a reappropriated cultural facet is no easy task, especially when...

The Dark and the Wicked [Video Review]

Something Wicked This Way Runs: Bertino Gets Bleak with Rural Horror Director Bryan Bertino continues an exploration of his sinister fetish with trapping sweetly conceived...

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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