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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Cannes 2014 Derby: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep Tops Nicholas’ Palme d’Or Predictions

He’s won the Grand Jury Prize for Distant (2002) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), plus the FIPRESCI for Climates (2006) and...

Stranger By the Lake | Blu-Ray Review

Taking home the Queer Palm and the Un Certain Regard Directing Award after its 2013 Cannes premiere, (not to mention a Cesar for Pierre...

Criterion Collection: Ace in the Hole | Blu-ray Review

A resounding flop upon its release, which saw it recut and rereleased as The Big Carnival without any greater success, Criterion remasters Billy Wilder’s...

Ship of Theseus | Review

Ghost Ship: Gandhi’s Debut an Enjoyably Philosophical Triptych Finally seeing a release after its 2012 premiere, Anand Gandhi’s directorial debut, Ship of Theseus is an...

Palo Alto | Review

My So Called Strife: A Coppola Debuts With a Flurry of Restless Teens Hollywood nepotism and the tableau of the teenage wasteland make for oddly...

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2027 Oscars: Austria Backs Hüller as ‘Rose’ in the Best Intl. Feature Film Category

Austria were in a bit of a pickle situation...

Train to Busan | Review

Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut...
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