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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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Review

Cloudy With a Chance of Strain: Rice’s Debut a Sweet Coated Flimsy For his directorial debut, Donald Rice adapts a 1932 novella written by Julia...

Sahkanaga | Review

Body Works: Summerour’s Quiet Reimagining of Notable Scandal an Ambivalent Mix For his directorial debut, John Henry Summerour fictionalizes a decade old account of a...

In Our Nature | Review

Forces of Nurture: Savelson’s Debut an Understated Ensemble of Well Tread Angst For his feature film debut, Brian Savelson has acquired an impressive four person...

Teodora Sinner | Review

For her second documentary feature (and first solo), Anca Hirte gives us an intimate look at cloistered Romanian nuns in Teodora Sinner, an exercise...

2013 Sundance Film Fest: Quality offerings from Larrain, Nichols, Wheatley and Polley for Spotlight Program

Sundance announced it's Spotlight program selections today, which consists of plum titles that have enjoyed prestigious premieres at other festivals from the year before....

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Saeed Roustayi’s ‘Woman and Child’

Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee (also spelled Saeed Roustayi -...

Resurrection | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic...

Woman and Child | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

All the Regime Allows: Roustaee Finds a Woman Scorned If...

Caravan | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

All About My Martyr: Kirchnerová’s Debut Finds the Journey...
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