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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Criterion Collection: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Blu-ray Review

The crown jewel of the New Romanian Cinema was Cristian Mungiu’s controversial abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which took...

The Conversation: The Din in Berlin – Top 10 Best of the 69th Berlinale

The 69th Berlinale will be remembered as a rather curious transitional year for the festival, the final year of its 4th director, Dieter Kosslick,...

Hotel by the River | Review

Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...

Birds of Passage | Review

Wayuu of the Gun: Greed’s No Good in Guerra & Gallego’s Ganja Saga Crime doesn’t pay, at least not for the indigenous Wayuu people in...

Monsters. | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Time to Leave: Olteanu’s Debut Examines the Strain of Sacrifice in Studied Marital Drama The relationship at the center of Romanian director Marius Olteanu’s carefully...

Breaking

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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