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 Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019

With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...

The Conversation: Producer Martin Gschlacht

Austrian producer Martin Gschlacht has been an active proponent of Austrian (and eventually Iranian) cinema since the late 1990s, and has quietly amassed a...

Under the Silver Lake | Review

Under the Sun of Satan: Mitchell’s Messy Neo Noir Revels in Elitist Superficiality Look no further than David Robert Mitchell’s third feature, the labored neo...

Milland Gets Murderous in Dwan’s The River’s Edge (1957) | Blu-ray Review

In the extensive filmography of director Allan Dwan, there’s perhaps no more glorious period of his filmmaking than his DeLuxe color film noir period...

Yates Plays the Frame Game in Late Period ‘An Innocent Man’ (1989) | Blu-ray Review

Director Peter Yates remains an interesting fixture of the 1970s New American Cinema throng whose early works continue to resonate and inspire, particularly his...

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La grazia | Review

The Long Goodbye: Sorrentino Returns to Familiar Remembrances of...

Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born...

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the...

Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals...
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