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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Ercoli Kept the Negatives in The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970) | Blu-ray Review

In many ways, as both its plot and title indicate, Luciano Ercoli’s jazzy 1970 directorial debut, The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion,...

Dolce Fine Giornata | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review

Under the Tuscan Sun: Borcuch Presents Compelling Intersection on Art and Political Responsibility Polish director Jacek Borcuch travels abroad once again for his fifth feature,...

I Am Mother | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review

They Call Me Mother: Sputore Examines What It Means to Be Human in Sci-Fi Debut Australia’s Grant Sputore makes an impressive directorial debut with the...

The Lodge | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review

You Gotta Have Faith: Severin & Fiala Mine Familial Madness in Warped Psychodrama Reexamining similar themes of the inherent madness of isolation and the potential...

Monos | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review

Monkey See Monkey Do: Landes’ Latest a Moody, Hermetic Portrait of Guerilla Warfare Brazil’s Alejandro Landes concocts a moody, textured exercise on child soldiers and...

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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...

Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake

Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in...
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