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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Three Friends (Trois amies) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Lyon Lies Bleeding: Mouret Explores L’amour Fou (Encore) Even for those unfamiliar with the filmography of Emmanuel Mouret, his latest film, Three Friends will unequivocally...

Quiet Life | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Do You Know Where You’re Going To?: Avranas Analyzes Syndrome of a New Century For his fifth narrative feature, Quiet Life, Greek Weird Wave alum...

The Life Apart | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre...

New Dawn Fades | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Through a Glass Darkly: Keltek Finds Divinity Through Insanity Sanism might be the term best used to define the trials and travails faced by the...

Toxic (Akiplėša) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Taste of a Poison Paradise: Bliuvaite Explores the Commodification of Women’s Bodies Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė perhaps could not have contrived a more succinct...

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2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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