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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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Review

Privilege Parable: Arteta’s Trifling Adaptation of Famed Children’s’ Novel Perhaps the most curious aspect of the live action Disney version of Judith Viorst’s 1972 children’s...

Kite | Review

Go Fly One: Ziman’s Anime Adaptation a Denuded, Unnecessary Endeavor Those familiar with Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 fifty minute anime of the same name will be...

Nightcap | Blu-ray Review

Coming to Blu-ray for the first time from the Cohen Media Group, Claude Chabrol’s late career thriller, Nightcap (better known by its French title,...

St. Vincent | Review

Sinners And Saints: Melfi’s Debut an Unobtrusive Crowd Pleaser For a few moments during its initial set-up, Theodore Melfi’s directorial debut, St. Vincent, seems on...

Kill the Messenger | Review

Crack is Whack: Cuesta Revisits Contras Affair as Political Thriller Though he has several films under his belt, director Michael Cuesta has probably made more...

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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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