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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From Hilde, With Love | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Germany, Pale Mother: Dresen Locates the Good Germans of WWII It comes as no surprise an old-fashioned director such Andreas Dresen is adept at making...

My Favorite Cake | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Layer Cake: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Find Love in a Hopeless Place If ever there were a film depicting how one cannot have their cake and...

The Editorial Office | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Winds of War: Bondarchuk Straddles a World On a Wire While it should play like an absurdist black comedy, Roman Bondarchuk’s sophomore narrative feature...

Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night) | Review

Night Moves: Escalante Cultivates a Moody, Capricious Mystery Replete with a slew of customary features encountered in a fatalistic film noir, Amat Escalante’s fifth feature,...

The Taste of Things | Review

Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...

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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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