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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Death Will Come (La Mort viendra) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

And Bear Your Eyes: Hochhäusler’s Grim Sketch of a Tangled Underworld Death, it seems, does not quite become Christoph Hochhäusler, the Berlin School alum making...

MaXXXine | Review

A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span...

Music | Review

Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to the description of Angela Schanelec’s latest film Music as...

Last Summer (L’Été dernier) | Review

One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an...

20,000 Species of Bees | Review

The Secret Life of Bees: Solaguren’s Warm Debut Explores the Communal Dictation of Gender Identity Our relationship to our gender and sexual identities is...

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

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

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

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...

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

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