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 Larry Fessenden Collection | Blu-ray Review

Scream Factory and IFC Midnight have paired up to present an inspired disc set for The Larry Fessenden Collection, an assortment of four of...

The Conversation: Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action

No film buff wants to see a promising, or prominent filmmaker pull a disappearing act a la Terrence Malick, (though it seems he isn't keen to...

Love | Review

Scorpio Becomes Electra: Noé's Sex Scenes from a Marriage The last time we were caught in provocateur Gaspar Noé’s crosshairs it was back in 2009...

Julia | Review

Beyond Therapy: Brown’s Illogical Entry of Femme Revenge For the most part, director Matthew A. Brown presents his directorial debut Julia without the exploitative flourishes...

Tokyo Tribe | Review

Why Don’t You Play in the Streets?: Sono’s Overblown Street War Musical Many consider Sion Sono to be Takashi Miike’s succeeding enfant terrible, both in...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

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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