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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Love Life | Review

Love the One You’re With: Fukada Explores Love and Death as Unhappy Accidents The instability of romance is the only real given in the intimate...

Stepne | 2023 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Land That Time Forgot: Vroda Mines Eroding Memories in Speculative Debut Thomas Wolfe meant You Can’t Go Home Again metaphorically, but such might literally...

Animal | 2023 Locarno Film Festival Review

Boogie Nights: Exarchou Doses Summertime Sadness in Achy Melodrama For anyone who’s ever wondered what life might be like for employees at any tourist trap...

Oppenheimer | Review

Bombs Away: How Christopher Nolan Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb For his highly anticipated twelfth feature, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan returns to the annals of...

Return to Dust | Review

The Good Earth: Ruijun Crafts Poignant Portrait of Transformative Love Director Li Ruijun returns to familiar themes in his sixth feature, Return to Dust, a...

Breaking

2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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