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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Lynch/Oz | Review

Follow the Celluloid Road: Philippe Explores the Magnificent Ozsessions of David Lynch The next best thing to a new David Lynch project has to be...

Padre Pio | Review

In the Name of the Father: Ferrara Explore Infamous Saint with Guerrilla Branded Biopic Like many of Abel Ferrara’s projects hobbled by various production issues,...

Unclenching the Fists | Review

So Daddy, I’m Finally Through: Kovalenko Explores Familial Dysfunction in Rural Melodrama The suppression of women by the heteropatriarchy is tale as ancient as civilization,...

Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

If You Don’t Die Today: Moretti Can’t Find the Rhythm in Musical Delusion To say the latest film from Nanni Moretti, Il sol dell'avvenire (A Brighter...

Rien à perdre (All to Play For) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

Other People’s Children: Deloget Butts with Bureaucracy in Familial Drama Virginie Efira continues to explore the arduous spectrum of contemporary motherhood in her latest film,...

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