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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The Conversation: Producer Olivier Père

Since joining ARTE France Cinema in 2013, producer Olivier Père has become a prolific fixture on the Croisette. Making a bow in Un Certain...

Beauty and the Beast | Review

The Beast Must Die: Condon’s Expensive Rehash is Fairy Tale Facsimile For a film with a budget of three hundred million claiming to be the...

After the Storm | Review

Together Again: Koreeda Unveils another Bittersweet Carefully Constructed Familial Melodrama For the past decade or so, Japanese auteur has conquered the market on sharply observed...

Song to Song | Review

Music Makes the People: Malick Slathers Austin, Texas with Signature Emotional Ennui Fragments of lovers drowning beneath the weight of their own expectations and stagnant...

Firestarter | Blu-ray Review

If there’s an enduring interest to Firestarter, the 1984 adaptation of Stephen King’s popular horror novel about a child with pyrokinetic capabilities hunted by...

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Black Tea | Review

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level...

Philosopher’s Zone: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Has Virginie Efira & Tao Okamoto Exchange in ‘All of the Sudden’

Finally one Paris-based project might have leap-frogged another (Our...
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