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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Anatahan (1953)| Review

Island of Lost Souls: Von Sternberg’s Lost Post-Colonial Swan Song Resurrected Best remembered for his indelible string of films starring Marlene Dietrich in the early...

The Salesman | Review

Dark but Full of Diamonds: Farhadi Incorporates Miller’s Tragic Theater for Gendered Revenge In keeping with his string of tersely titled but searing domestic melodramas,...

Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Sundance Film Fest Top Ten

In what ended up being one of the snowiest and coldest editions of Sundance in recent memory, there was no shortage of pleasant cinematic...

Detour | Review

Byway Bric-a-Brac: Smith Disappoints with Undistinguished Neo-noir If the title sounds familiar, it’s because British director Christopher Smith is borrowing from the moniker from Edgar...

Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo | Review

The Night is Young: Ducastel & Martineau’s Procedural Queer Romance For their seventh theatrical feature, Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (also known for its more...

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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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