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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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Review

Relapse/Recovery: Sheen’s Demure Turn Wallows In Coppola’s Schizophrenic Film Gesture Fans of Joseph Losey’s 1966 failed experiment, Modesty Blaise, (of which there are quite a...

Magic Magic | Sundance 2013 Review

Identikit: Silva’s Eerie Genre Effort an Unsettling Throwback Harkening back to a genre of women and madness features that populated plenty of classic titles from...

Best of Fest: Nicholas’ Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival

#5. Stoker South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook makes his English language debut about a creepy dysfunctional family in a gothic old house from a screenplay...

Body Language: Alfama Films Set to Produce Luca Guadagnino’s Body Art

It seems David Cronenberg hasn’t had enough of Don DeLillo, with Variety reporting that the director is set to go in front of the...

The Look of Love | Sundance 2013 Review

Love Hurts: Winterbottom’s Biopic a By-the-Numbers Look at London’s Infamous King of Soho Michael Winterbottom continues on with his whirlwind filmography, unleashing one of his...

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Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Heavy Toll: Shirai’s Artful Take on the Body...

Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...

Interview: Nathalia Acevedo – Salón de belleza

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with...

Fjord | Review

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven...
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