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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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...

Öndög | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Steppe in the Name of Love: Quan’an Returns with Distinctive, Mysterious Flair For his seventh feature, Chinese filmmaker Wang Quan’an turns to the Mongolian steppe...

Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) | Review

Iran So Far Away: Farhadi Stumbles with Spanish Soap Opera Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi (A Separation; The Salesman) makes his Spanish-language debut with...

Acid | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Melt With You: Gorchilin Tracks the Apathy of Russia’s Youth in Agitated Debut No one gives a damn about their generation until they begin to...

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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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