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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Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #9. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Wild Pear Tree

Wild Pear Tree Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Writer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan happens to be one of the most lauded director working today....

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #10. Kelly Reichardt’s Undermajordomo Minor

Undermajordomo Minor Director: Kelly Reichardt Writer: Kelly Reichardt, Patrick DeWitt With a little luck, we’ll see two adaptations of titles by novelist Patrick DeWitt, one being the...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11

As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...

Paradise | 2017 Palm Springs Film Festival Review

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Criterion Collection: His Girl Friday | Blu-ray Review

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