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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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...

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'...

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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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