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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Perfect Days | Review

Road to Nowhere: Wenders Welcomes the Pleasures of a Simple Life in Quiet Drama In his most successfully realized narrative feature in years, Wim Wenders...

Disco Boy | Review

Mal Travaille: Abbruzzese Finds the Rhythm of the Night in Hypnotic Debut “E’en hell hath its peculiar laws,” remarked Faust in Goethe’s eternal classic, the...

Tótem | Review

Life and Death of the Party: Aviles’ Bustling Ensemble Piece Balances Pain & Profundity Taking place over the course of one frenetic day, Lila...

Mambar Pierrette | Review

In Fabric: Mbakam Conveys a Season’s Struggles in Cameroon “In the ant’s house, the dew is a flood,” might be the proverbial dilemma faced by...

In the Land of Brothers | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review

Family of Straw: Amirfazli & Ghasemi Present a Trilogy of Familial Tragedies The title, of course, is a bitter irony relating to Iran’s self-anointed nickname,...

Breaking

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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