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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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #25. Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames Before and After Lumiere

24 Frames Before and After Lumiere Director: Abbas Kiarostami Writer: Abbas Kiarostami We’ve been expecting an update on Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s mysterious Chinese project for some...

El Movimiento | Review

Birth of No Nation: Naishtat’s Compelling, Experimental History Lesson Argentinean director Benjamin Naishtat’s sophomore effort, El Movimiento is a disturbing and inventive account of national...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #26. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry

Endless Poetry Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Writer: Alejandro Jodrowsky Chilean auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky has been incredibly productive since breaking his twenty-three year hiatus in filmmaking with 2013’s The...

Criterion Collection: Bitter Rice | Blu-ray Review

Criterion digs Bitter Rice out of obscurity this month, a pulpy mix of social drama and dime store pathos from director and screenwriter Giuseppe...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #27. Benoît Jacquot’s Son corps

Son corps Director: Benoît Jacquot Writer: Benoît Jacquot We’re still sulking over the initial plans Luca Guadagnino had for adapting Dom Delillo’s novella The Body Artist back...

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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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