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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Freeheld | Review

The Equality in Dying: Sollett’s Topical Gay Rights Issue Explores Yesterday’s Nightmares Had a film like Freeheld been released in the late 2000s, shortly after...

Ashby | Review

Three Months to Kill: McNamara’s Derivative Hodge-Podge You’ll neither laugh nor cry, but hover somewhere in an emotionally dysthymic plateau watching Tony McNamara’s sophomore debut,...

Maurice Pialat Retrospective: Under the Sun of Satan | Review

Soak up the Sun: Pialat’s Palme d’Or Winning Spiritual Anguish As part of Cohen Media Group’s Maurice Pialat retrospective, perhaps the most significant title showcased...

Criterion Collection: Breaker Morant |Blu-ray Review

Following the mid-70s wave of critically acclaimed Australian cinema, thanks to names like Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi and Gillian Armstrong, director Bruce Beresford would...

The Duke of Burgundy | Blu-ray Review

After premiering at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Peter Strickland's third feature The Duke of Burgundy went on to a limited theatrical release...

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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...
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