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 Pied Piper | Blu-ray Review

A forgotten oddity from the early 1970s is Jacques Demy’s English language mounting of The Pied Piper, a rather bleak but mostly unequivocal version...

The Conversation: Top 3 Most Anticipated Directors’ Fortnight Picks: Denis, Baker & Dumont

Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival's inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional...

The Salesman | Blu-ray Review

Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman was his second film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film (following 2012’s A Separation),...

The Circle | Review

Like a Record Round: Ponsoldt Spins the Wheels with Silly Tech Thriller James Ponsoldt launches uneasily into mainstream studio territory with the internet thriller The...

Everybody’s Life | 2017 COLCOA French Film Festival Review

Au Beaune Pain: Lelouch Continues with Frivolous Comedy Spackle Somewhere along the way Palme d'Or and Oscar winning auteur Claude Lelouch (1966’s A Man and...

Breaking

La grazia | Review

The Long Goodbye: Sorrentino Returns to Familiar Remembrances of...

Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born...

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the...

Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals...
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