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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Himizu | Review

Suffer the Children: Sono’s Social Dystopia a Melancholy Landscape It appears that 2014 will be a year that sees a flood of Sion Sono’s back...

Le Week-End | Review

Meant to Be Spent Alone: Michell’s Latest a Welcome Return to Quality Filmmaking After a pair of mainstream US misfires, South African born director Roger...

The Den | Review

Unlawful Entry: Donohue’s Debut a Promising Idea with Faulty Execution Director Zachary Donohue brings the home invasion thriller to the millennial doorstep with his directorial...

Criterion Collection: George Washington | Blu-ray Review

As director David Gordon Green returns to the mind frame of independent cinema with a duo of films like Prince Avalanche and (especially) the...

Enemy | Review

Identical/Identity: Villeneuve's Doppelganger Thriller a Kafkaesque Dead Ringer You can forget the pulpy throes of the dark hearted Prisoners, the recently released collaboration of Jake...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Only the Lonely: Ulrich Seidl Travels to Dark Tourism Places with ‘Distances’

The folks art Cineuropa are giving us a major...

History Repeating Itself: Magnus von Horn Train Hops with Jeremy Strong in ‘The Passenger’

Hopefully at some point it'll lose the over-used, generic...

2026 Rathaus Film Grant Winners: Paisley Sutton, Rachel Debolski & Bree Gant

Rathaus Films have announced the winners of the third...
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