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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Ant-Man | Review

Can’t-Man: Reed’s Marvel Entry Positions Rudd as Dubious Franchise Tangent Evidence of Marvel’s continuing imperviousness to even the most promising of fashionable script doctors is...

Lila & Eve | Review

Day of the Mother: Stone’s Flighty Revenge Thriller Favors Laughs There’s a certain degree of entertainment to be gleaned from director Charles Stone III’s latest...

Video Interview: Fabrice Du Welz – Alleluia

We sat with Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, where his latest feature, Alleluia, played in the Vanguard line-up...

Court | Review

Legal Ease: Tamhane’s Frustrating, Numbing Portrait of India’s Legal System Director Chaitanya Tamhane won Best Film in the Horizons program at the 2014 Venice Film...

Trainwreck | Review

Who’ll Stop the Train?: Apatow Matures with Schumer’s Impressive Skills The most inappropriate element of Judd Apatow’s latest film Trainwreck is its title, which promises...

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

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Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

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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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