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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Sheba, Baby | Blu-ray Review

Strangely enough, Pam Grier’s last Blaxploitation feature, 1975’s Sheba, Baby, would be the title to introduce her to a much wider audience thanks to...

United States of Love | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Certain Women: Wasilewski Explores Enlightenment and Despair It was 1990, and the climate was changing. Or so begins Polish director Tomas Wasilewski’s third feature, United...

Malgré la nuit | 2016 Film Comment Selects Review

When the Night Has Come: Grandrieux Laments Lost Love Seven years have passed since provocateur Philippe Grandrieux’s 2008 film Un Lac, and he remains somewhat...

Triple 9 | Review

The Russians Are Coming: Hillcoat Juggles Strands in Sprawling Heist Thriller About half way into John Hillcoat’s impressively staged heist thriller Triple 9, it becomes...

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...

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2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

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2027 Oscars: ‘Everytime’, ‘Coward’ & ‘Possible Loves’ Enter International Feature Oscar Race

The International Feature Film category is only beginning to...

Park Ji-Min Joins Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage’s ‘I Just Want a Great Love Story’

Production has begun on Philippe Lesage's highly anticipated I...
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