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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My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama...

Dying (Sterben) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Family Matters: Glasner’s Sprawling Portrait of Chaotic Dysfunction Exemplifying Tolstoy’s famous Anna Karenina quote on ‘every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,’ German...

Some Rain Must Fall | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Mistress of Misery: Yang Explores the Turmoil of Transformation Here comes the rain again, falling on her head like a tragedy. Or so is the...

Reas | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Caged Birds Singing: Arias Re-enacts Prison Experiences If Orange is the New Black was being workshopped as a community theater musical, it might resemble something...

My Summer with Irène | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Summertime Sadness: Sironi Escapes to Sicily in Oblique Friendship Drama There’s no running away from the past, no matter how glorious the sun dappled idyll...

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Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...

2027 Oscars: ‘Everytime’, ‘Coward’ & ‘Possible Loves’ Enter International Feature Oscar Race

The International Feature Film category is only beginning to...
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