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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Malu | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review

A Streetcar Named Desejo: Freire Mines Matriarchal Tendencies Having directed several short films and television series, Brazilian director Pedro Freire unleashes a motherlode of intergenerational...

Veni Vidi Vici | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review

Destroy Everything You Touch: Hoesl & Riemann Come to Conquer with Dark Satire As ABBA once succinctly stated, “Money, money money/Must be funny/In a rich...

Sujo | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review

Goodbye Horses: Valadez & Rondero Explore a Valley of Violence Working as co-directors on their latest feature Sujo, Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero once again...

Origin | Review

Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy For her fifth narrative feature, Origin, Ava DuVernay takes an inventive...

The Settlers | Review

Once Upon a Time in Chile: Haberle Crafts Colonialist Past as a Vicious Western A quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia opens Felipe Gálvez’s sinister...

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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