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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99 Homes | Review

Housing Complex: Bahrani Extends Capitalism Criticism to Housing Market Though his 2012 farming melodrama At Any Price found director Ramin Bahrani gaining wider visibility with...

Mississippi Grind | Review

Let the River Run: Boden & Fleck’s Melancholy, Character Driven Road-Trip Filmmaking duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck return with their best collaboration since the...

In the Name of My Daughter | Blu-ray Review

French auteur Andre Techine's In the Name of My Daughter received a decent theatrical run nearly a year after it premiered out of competition...

The Connection | Blu-ray Review

Cedric Jimenez's The Connection is a handling of a scenario touched upon from an American perspective in William Friedkin's classic 1971 film The French...

High-Rise | 2015 TIFF Review

Closer to the Gods: Cult Author Meets Cult Director in Wheatley’s Latest Dish Destined to be overlooked as a visually impressive but significant creative failure,...

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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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