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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Bad Words | Review

Scatological Prowess: Bateman’s Directorial Debut an Amusing Vulgarity Fans of fare like Bad Santa and Bad Teacher should rejoice in Bad Words, foul-mouthed fodder involving...

The Art of the Steal | Review

Art Bitch: Sobol Turns to the Dependable Heist Drama with Mixed Results Flying in on the feathery laurels of Kurt Russell (once again donning a...

Grand Piano | Review

Player Piano: Interesting Ideas Churn Into Nonsensical Slog in Mira’s Third Outing Back with his first film since the 2010 potboiler, Agnosia, Spanish director Eugenio...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #2. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster

The Lobster Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Writer(s): Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou (both featured in pic above) Producer(s): Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Lee Magiday & Ed Guiney, Scarlet Films'...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #4. Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan

Leviathan Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev Writers: Andrei Zvyagintsev and Oleg Nevin Producer(s): NON-STOP PRODUCTION U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Elena Lyadova, Alexei Serebryakov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov With a trio of deliriously...

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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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