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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Blitz | Review

London Has Fallen: McQueen Explores Life During Wartime Following his extensively researched 2023 documentary Occupied City, which details WWII atrocities waged against the Dutch during...

Dahomey | Review

Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in...

Anora | Review

Fools Russia In: Baker’s Bangin’ Screwball Comedy At this point in his career, filmmaker Sean Baker seems to have covered all the major facets of...

The Apprentice | Review

The Devil and Donald Trump: Abbasi Reconstructs the Rise of a Crony Capitalist Among the many wise observations written by nineteenth century Englishman Lord Acton,...

Daaaaaali! | Review

Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive Biopic It seems surrealism’s pioneer Salvador Dali is experiencing something of a culturally concentric resurgence as...

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Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

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2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

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2027 Oscars: ‘Everytime’, ‘Coward’ & ‘Possible Loves’ Enter International Feature Oscar Race

The International Feature Film category is only beginning to...

Park Ji-Min Joins Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage’s ‘I Just Want a Great Love Story’

Production has begun on Philippe Lesage's highly anticipated I...
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