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: Top 10 Technicians Mid-Year Ranking

With directors and/or actors usurping most of the credit and acclaim for lauded film features, we chose to highlight a few of the behind-the-scenes...

Our Little Sister | Review

Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Kore-eda’s Continued Examination of Polite Familial Discord Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Our Little Sister (aka Umimachi Diary), another...

The Legend of Tarzan | Review

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Seditious Subtexts of the White Savior in Latest Tarzan Adaptation Certain properties are best left alone, allowed to exist in the...

Private Property (1960) | Review

Piece of the Pie: Stevens’ Psychosexual Drama Gets Revamped The poster tagline for Leslie Stevens’ 1960 directorial debut Private Property says it all, proclaiming the...

Carnage Park | Review

Carnage Knowledge: Keating’s Halfhearted Shot at Grindhouse not a Fine Vintage For his fourth feature, indie genre director Mickey Keating attempts a vintage crime/horror mash-up...

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Two Prosecutors | Review

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

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...
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