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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The Conversation: Jenkins’ Moonlight, Escalante’s The Untamed & the Totality of TIFF ’16

As far as the matter of size goes, the Toronto International Film Festival continues to astound, with close to 300 plus titles amassed for...

Frantz | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

The Guest Who’s Coming to Dinner: Ozon’s Period Culture Clash a Handsome, Uninvolving Production In many ways, Francois Ozon’s output still swings jaggedly between the...

Raising Cain | Blu-ray Review

Genre films dealing with multiple personality disorder (or now correctly known as dissociative identity disorder) tend to be a bit problematic, usually leaning into...

Indivisible | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

It Takes Two: De Angelis Crafts Distinctive Neapolitan Drama on Siamese Twins Siamese twins have always made alluring subjects for the cinema, whether at the...

The Dreamed Path | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

Scenes from a Fugue State: Schanelec Returns with Abstract Continuum of Dissolved Relationships “I don’t know where to put myself,” says a character at one...

Breaking

Interview: Xavier Tera – The Color of the Sun

After competing in Venice’s Orizzonti section and taking home...

Interview: Victor Boocard (Moongirl)

French filmmaker Victor Boccard traces his love of cinema...

Interview: Billie Piper – Elsinore

Across her beginnings as a pop-star, to television and...

Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

I first took notice of Jordan Firstman through his...
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