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.

Exclusive articles:

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...

Golden Youth | 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review

Youth Without Youth: Ionesco Waxes and Wavers on Partying at Le Palace Writer-director Eva Ionesco returns to semi-autobiographical inspiration for her sophomore film Golden Youth...

The Magic Life of V | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review

V for Vanquish: Hristov Showcases Role-Playing as Trauma Therapy in Intimate Doc For his seventh documentary feature, Finland’s Tonislav Hristov returns to his home country...

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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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