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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Barefoot | Review

Sterile Cuckoo: Fleming’s Latest a Series of Rotund Clichés Director Andrew Fleming returns with his first film since 2008’s neglected Hamlet 2, a road trip/mental...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #96. Celine Sciamma’s Band of Girls (Bande de Filles)

Band of Girls (Bande de Filles) Director: Celine Sciamma Writer: Celine Sciamma Producer: Hold Up Films U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Unknown Director Celine Sciamma, who received considerable regard for...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #97. Radu Jude’s Aferim!

Aferim! Director: Radu Jude Writers: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu Producer: HiFilm's Ada Solomon U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Unknown After receiving an extremely positive reception for his 2012 sophomore film,...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #98. Jorge Michel Grau’s Big Sky

Big Sky Director: Jorge Michel Grau Writer: Evan M. Wiener Producers: Matthew Salloway, Christina Papagjika U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Bella Thorne, Kyra Sedgwick, Frank Grillo Mexican director Jorge Michel...

Black Out | Review

Black and Mild: Toonen’s High Octane Adaptation a Bit Derivative If you could imagine The Hangover remade as a drug fueled action thriller with stylizations...

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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