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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DAU. Natasha | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Russia House: Khrzhanovskiy & Oertel Arrive from Russia with Love As far as the cinematic form has been concerned, there’s been nothing which courts...

Guns Akimbo | Review

We Lost God Control: Howden Gets Loud with Gamer Action Comedy Video games killed the cinema star could be one of many punchy quips concerning...

The Woman Who Ran | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Rendezvous in Seoul: Sang-soo Gets Spare in Conversational Triptych Ending a rare year-long absence from the cinema (an observation of note since he presents two...

Her Love is Real, But She is Not: Gainsbourg Plays with Gender Norms in “Je t’aime moi non plus” (1976) Blu-ray Review

An obscure oddity from the late 70s, to be sure, is French pop artist Serge Gainsbourg’s 1976 directorial debut, Je t’aime moi non plus...

When the Walls Can Talk: Forbes’ Forgotten “The Whisperers” Finds New Breath | Blu-ray Review

British director Bryan Forbes is perhaps best remembered for his iconic American horror film The Stepford Wives, which became a genre classic and entered...

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Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

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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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