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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Tricked | Review

Community Cinema: Verhoeven’s Failed Experiment Confirms Concepts of Authorship Four years after its premiere in his native Netherlands and a screening at the 2012 Rome...

Criterion Collection: I Knew Her Well | Blu-ray Review

Love is most definitely not a many splendored thing in the bedazzled artifice of Rome’s swinging 60s, at least as far as the good...

A Dragon Arrives! | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Be a Dragon: Haghighi’s Enticing Hodgepodge Defies Categorization Director Mani Haghighi stakes a claim as one of the most innovative new voices out of Iran...

The Conversation: Das ist Berlin

The Berlin International Film Festival continued to challenge expectations in its 66th edition, landing another auteur heavy competition line-up, albeit a slightly less sensational...

The Road to Istanbul | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Free Radicals: Bouchareb Explores a Mother’s Nightmare in Topical Treatment French director Rachid Bouchareb is no stranger to exploring the actions radicalized children have on...

Breaking

Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third...

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

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