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 Witch | Review

Better the Devil You Know: Eggers’ Debut Marinates with Menace Easily the most profoundly unnerving film to play at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, the...

Embrace of the Serpent | Review

Hearts of Darkness: Guerra’s Exceptional Exploration of Ruinous Colonialization Colombian director Ciro Guerra charts an enigmatic narrative of parallel odysseys through the Amazon with his...

You’ll Never Be Alone | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

A Lonely Way to Die: Anwandter Explores the Elements of a Hate Crime The 2012 murder of openly gay Chilean Daniel Zamudio provides the basis...

Criterion Collection: Death by Hanging | Blu-ray Review

Before he would come to be known as one of cinema’s most controversial provocateurs with his most infamous title, 1976’s In the Realm of...

War on Everyone | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Let’s Be Bad Cops: McDonagh’s U.S. Visit an Overworked Episode Director John Michael McDonagh makes his first foray to the US with third feature, War...

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Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

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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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