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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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...

Illegitimate | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Cruel Intentions: Sitaru Aims to Provoke with Abortion Drama Director Adrian Sitaru makes his most galling effort yet with his fourth film, Illegitimate, a social...

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...

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Possible Love | Review

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch...

Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee...

Interview: Travis Knight – Wildwood

Among those that play the long game we could...

Interview: Peyton Elizabeth Lee – Wildwood

A half dozen years ago Peyton Elizabeth Lee moved...
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