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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They Have Escaped | 2014 TIFF Review

Running on Empty: Valkeapaa’s Vicious Road Trip We may have seen similar iterations of outcast, adolescent misfits refusing to conform to the world’s expectations many...

Honeymoon | Review

Period of Adjustment: Janiak’s Eerie Relationship Chiller a Provocative Debut Weirdly unsettling, Leigh Janiak’s directorial debut, Honeymoon, is one of those rarely effective offbeat psychological...

My Old Lady | 2014 TIFF Review

Seeds of Yesterday: Horovitz’s Debut a Tonally Uncomfortable Adaptation Playwright and screenwriter Israel Horovitz makes his directorial debut with My Old Lady, an adaptation of...

Waste Land | 2014 TIFF Review

Fear in a Handful of Dust: Van Hees Completes Trilogy with Dark Metaphor Belgian director Pieter Van Hees completes his thematically connected "Anatomy of Love and...

Return to Ithaca | 2014 TIFF Review

Shared Tendencies: McGowan’s Debut an Understated Navigation Palme d’Or winning director Laurent Cantet continues a tour outside of France with his latest feature, the carefully...

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