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 Danish Girl | 2015 TIFF Review

Danish Modern: Hooper’s Painterly Costume Drama Mounted on a Glossy Stage Much as last year’s The Imitation Game served to honor the memory and legacy...

Urban Hymn | 2015 TIFF Review

Can a Song Save Your Life?: Caton-Jones’ Modest Return to Filmmaking Scottish film director Michael Caton-Jones had a very prolific filmography in the 1990s thanks...

Un plus Une | 2015 TIFF Review

Passage Over India: Lelouch’s Romantic Dramedy an Overstuffed Pilgrimage French auteur Claude Lelouch, now well into his seventies, maintains a prolific career, striding through a...

The Visit | Review

Home is Where the Hacker Is: Shyamalan’s Return to Entertaining Cinema In many ways, The Visit, the latest film from once celebrated M. Night Shyamalan,...

Time Out of Mind | Review

Time to Time: Moverman’s Austere Portrait of Homelessness There’s a deliberate soul-crushing methodology to Oren Moverman’s third feature Time Out of Mind (taking its title from...

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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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