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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Tasting Menu | Review

Finger Food: Gaul’s Latest Effort Staunchly Unappetizing Spanish filmmaker Roger Gaul (known for his 2002 debut, the co-directed Smoking Room) returns with this Irish co-produced...

Small Time | Review

Refurbished: Surnow’s Debut a Casserole of Cliché Seasoned television writer and producer Joel Surnow makes his directorial debut with Small Time, based on an autobiographical...

Proxy | Review #2

Pinch-hitting: Parker’s Latest as Surprising As it is Unwieldy With a series of continuously improving indie horror thrillers under his belt, filmmaker Zack Parker launches...

13 Sins | Review

Game On: Stamm’s Latest a B-Grade But Fun Genre Flick Director Daniel Stamm leaves behind the found footage genre for his third outing as director...

Transcendence | Review

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes: Pfister’s Debut Oversteps Limited Reach Hopes were perhaps set a bit too high for the directorial debut of Wally Pfister,...

Breaking

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...
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