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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Saint Omer | Review

Parallel Mothers: Diop Explores Monstrousness and Motherhood in Provocative Courtroom Drama For her narrative feature debut Saint Omer, Alice Diop builds an agonizing and elegant...

Alcarràs | Review

Peach Be With You: Simon Harvests Bitter Reality in Solid, Steady Family Drama Returning to the rural experiences which defined her 2017 debut Summer of...

Par Coeurs | Review

A Matter of Method: Jacquot Surveys the Techniques of Two French Titans in Conversational Doc “I’m all at sea,” moans Isabelle Huppert at the onset...

Broker | Review

Be My Little Baby: Kore-eda Gets Weepy with Sentimental Adoption Drama Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan’s esteemed purveyor of domestic melancholy, continues with his bid for...

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Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...
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