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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Wilder Concocts an Affair to Remember in Underrated A Foreign Affair (1948) | Blu-ray Review

One of a handful of Billy Wilder’s underrated films is the dark romantic comedy A Foreign Affair (1948), which was filmed in the bombed-out...

Echo | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Last Word: Rúnarsson Sketches Mosaic of Modern Iceland in Varied Vignettes Had each of the 56 segments of Echo, the third film from Iceland’s...

Maternal | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review

Nun of Your Business: Delpero Explores Mothers and Others in Astute Debut For her feature film debut, documentarian Maura Delpero observed young women in Buenos...

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? | Review

Fox and Her Friends: Linklater Falters on the Architecture of Blanchett in Bizarre, Uneven Dramedy The boldest move made by Richard Linklater in his latest...

Criterion Collection: Klute (1971) | Blu-ray Review

“I have no idea what I’m going to do,” and “I have no idea what’s going to happen,” are among some of the lines...

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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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