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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Who Do I Belong To | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Return of the Soldier: Joobeur Explores Ghosts of War Matriarchs confronted by their radicalized children have slowly and painstaking formed a cinematic subgenre of...

Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History Composer Margherita Vicario makes her directorial debut with Gloria!, a period piece recuperating a...

Foreign Tongue (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama There’s a lot going on in Claire Burger’s third film, Foreign Tongue...

Raíz (Through Rocks and Clouds) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

A Walk in the Clouds: Becerra Mines Escapism and Innocence in Quiet Drama A dwindling group of alpaca herders find themselves on the verge...

My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama...

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2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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