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:

A Different Man | Review

The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value Those familiar with his 2018 sophomore film Chained for Life will likely notate director...

Hoard | Review

M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut “Time heals all old pain, while it creates new...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Review

Juice Cocktail: Burton Revamps His First Demon There’s no way to reproduce the imaginative awe of Tim Burton’s 1988 idiosyncratic goth YA classic Beetlejuice. Or,...

Sicilian Letters (Iddu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Letters to Daddy: Grassadonia & Piazza Continue Their Cosa Nostra Sagas Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza reimagine the circumstances surrounding yet another mafioso...

Diva Futura | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Erotic Stagnancy: Steigerwalt’s Depthless Approach of a Italian Porn Heyday There’s a formidably compelling subject matter at the heart of Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s sophomore film...

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Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos & Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia

There is a chaotic violence at the core of...

Exclusive Trailer: Ashes to Ashes, Toronto to Oslo in Bohdanowicz’s ‘Measures for a Funeral’ (2025)

After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival...

2025 SODEC Coin for New Projects by Philippe Lesage, Annie St-Pierre & Charlotte Le Bon

Quebec’s SODEC (the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles)...
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