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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Cent mille milliards | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Unhappy Hooker: Vernier Explores Ennui in Monaco Interconnected drifters aligned with sex work once again provide the backbone for Virgil Vernier’s third feature 100,000,000,000,000...

Agora | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Dead Don’t Die: Slim Sets Adrift in Tedious Metaphors For his third feature film, Agora, Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim continues in the realm...

Moon | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Bitter Moon: Ayub Concocts a Taut Domestic Thriller “It takes time for a bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its...

Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Wind Carries On: Mateus Crafts Political Fable Fusing Past & Present In her debut film, Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind), which finds a...

Weightless | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Big Empty: Fgaier Crash Lands with Sentimental Drivel For her directorial debut Weightless (Sulla terra leggeri), film editor Sara Fgaier opens her narrative with a...

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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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