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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The Last Step | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Stepping It Up: Mossafa Returns With a Murky Puzzle Director Ali Mosaffa returns with his sophomore feature, The Last Step (his last directorial effort was 2005’s...

The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On | AFI Fest 2012 Review

The Most Fun You’ll Have With Tedium: Denny’s Debut Neither Lives Up To It’s Teasing Title or Promising Premise Using the recent death of her...

Blood of My Blood | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Bloodletting: Canijo’s Latest a Masterwork of Familial Upheaval Portuguese director Joao Canijo returns with his eighth feature, Blood of My Blood, (his first fictional outing...

Ape | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Natural Selection: Potrykus’ Debuts a Worthwhile yet Ragged Effort Aligned with similarly titled works that capture mankind’s possibility to regress to a more primitive, mammalian...

The International Sign For Choking | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Heimlech Gesture: Weintraub’s Noxious Nostalgia an Exercise in Distraction Angst and privilege intersect in The International Sign For Choking, a tale of aimless abandon directed...

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