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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Kid | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Hard Knock Life: Troch Returns With Another Exquisite Examination on Anguish Actress turned director Fien Troch returns with her third feature film, Kid, another beautifully...

Everybody In Our Family | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Out of the Bedroom & Into the Streets: Jude’s Latest a Bitter Drama of Cyclical Misery Now at the end of a decade in existence,...

This Must Be the Place | Review

But I Guess I’m Already There: Why is Sorrentino’s Strange, Offbeat English Language Debut…? The promising combination of Italian master Paolo Sorrentino’s English language debut...

Festival of Lights | Review

Lights Out: Prasad’s Feature Debut a Messy, Stagnant Immigration Drama Previously working as a documentary filmmaker, director Shundell Prasad makes her fiction feature debut with...

The Bay | Review

Bay Day: Levinson Mines Horror Genre to Surprising Effect In what may be one of the year’s most curious entries in the horror genre, The...

Breaking

Interview: Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow

Before he began his maiden voyage into Cannes (being...

2025 André Bazin Prize: Louise Hémon’s ‘The Girl in the Snow’ (L’Engloutie) Wins

Selected for this year's Directors' Fortnight, Louise Hémon's The...

Interview: Morad Mostafa – Aisha Can’t Fly Away

Part of a new wave of Egyptian filmmakers testing...
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