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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Cymbeline | Review

Riot This Way: Almeryeda Back to Contemporizing Shakespeare While many were quick to critique director Michael Almereyda’s Y2K update of Shakespeare’s most notable play, Hamlet,...

3 Hearts | Review

Heart to Heart to Heart: Jacquot’s Romantic Drama Can’t Cover Every Angle Despite sporting the likes of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve, 3 Hearts, the...

The Connection | 2015 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Review

Le Chapitre Français: Jimenez’s Satisfactory Take on Famed Drug Smuggling Operation Within the glut of cinematic dramas and thrillers contending with drug smuggling operations and...

Of Horses and Men | Review

A Horse is a Horse, Of Course: Erlingsson’s Debut Visually Striking, Episodic Iceland’s 2013 submission for Best Foreign Language film was the directorial debut of Benedikt...

The Liberator | Blu-ray Review

Selected as the Venezuelan submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2014 Academy Awards, Alberto Arvelo’s The Liberator, a biopic on Simon Bolivar,...

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