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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Need For Speed | Review

On the Road Again: Waugh’s Woeful Film an Offending Lemon Leaving behind the galvanizing propaganda of his Navy SEALs plugged film debut, Act of Valor,...

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...

Breaking

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...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...
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