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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A Glaze of Sautet: Five Films from a Neglected Auteur

Rialto Pictures resurrects five classic titles from French auteur Claude Sautet in brand new DCP versions for a mini-retrospective one week run in Los...

Southpaw | Review

My Left Fist: Fuqua’s Sports Drama a Familiar, Emotionally Charged Comeback After another recent dalliance in action genre schlock, director Antoine Fuqua returns with the...

A Hard Day | Review

Long Day’s Journey: Seong-hoon Reaches Amoral High Ground with Spry Action Flick If anything, South Korean director Kim Seong-hoon’s sophomore film A Hard Day certainly...

Safelight | Review

To the Lighthouse: Aloupis Crafts Woefully Sluggish Tale of Truck Stop Tendencies Serving up a generous helping of outsider character study with teenage romance tinged...

A Poem is a Naked Person | Review

Taste of Starlight: Blank’s Debut a Fascinating Time Capsule Highly regarded documentarian Les Blank’s 1974 debut finally sees an official theatrical release over forty years...

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Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

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...
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