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 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...

The Sound and the Fury | Review

But a Walking Shadow: Franco’s Faulkner Redux Merely Serviceable Continuing to thumb his nose at naysayers, James Franco plunges onward into his own particular directorial...

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Interview: Hédi Zardi Atlas Workshop – 2026 Marrakech Film Festival

The Atlas Workshops provide artistic and professional support to...

Possible Love | Review

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch...

Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee...

Interview: Travis Knight – Wildwood

Among those that play the long game we could...
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