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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Creepy | Review

Social Disease: Kurosawa’s Aptly Titled Thriller Returns to Expressions of a Serial Killer Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa does double duty this year releasing two extravagant,...

The Whole Truth | Review

Truth, Be Told: Hunt Returns to Moral Grey Zone with Courtroom Drama The only real anomalistic quality to Courtney Hunt’s long awaited sophomore feature The...

The Handmaiden | Review

Women in Revolt: Chan-wook’s Sumptuous Period Drama Wrestles with Romance, Revenge Following his 2013 English language debut, Stoker, South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook returns to...

Moonlight | Review

When the Rainbow is Enuf: Jenkins Returns with Exceptional, Moving Character Portrait It’s been eight years since indie filmmaker Barry Jenkins debuted his exceptional directorial...

2016 Warsaw Film Festival: The Comrade Who Came in from the Cold

As Poland’s capital, Warsaw is representative of the country’s rich and complex historical legacy, something which can’t be discussed without a thorough understanding of...

Breaking

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...

Romería | Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After...
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