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 Gift | Blu-ray Review

One of the best surprises of 2015 thus far has been Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut, The Gift. The increasingly prolific actor somehow managed to...

The Conversation: Finding Foreigners

Though there are many issues regarding the problematic process in deciding the roster of nominees for the annual onslaught known as the Academy Awards,...

Hard Labor (Trabalhar Cansa) | Review

There’s a Ghost in Me: Dutra and Rojas Explore the Reductive State of Capitalism The changing socioeconomic landscape in Brazil has had a direct impact...

Marshland (La Isla Mínima) | Review

Caught in the Quagmire: Rodriguez’s Satisfying Period Neo-Noir Having swept the 2014 Goya Awards back home (winning ten of its sixteen nominations, including Best Film),...

Burnt | Review

Chef Boyardee: Wells Fails with Filmmaking Recipe For his third film outing, director John Wells delves into the catty universe of high-end cuisine with Burnt...

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IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Only the Lonely: Ulrich Seidl Travels to Dark Tourism Places with ‘Distances’

The folks art Cineuropa are giving us a major...

History Repeating Itself: Magnus von Horn Train Hops with Jeremy Strong in ‘The Passenger’

Hopefully at some point it'll lose the over-used, generic...

2026 Rathaus Film Grant Winners: Paisley Sutton, Rachel Debolski & Bree Gant

Rathaus Films have announced the winners of the third...
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