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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God Loves Caviar | TIFF 2012 Review

And Hates the Proletariat: Greek Costume Drama Stinks to High Heaven Greek director Yannis Smaragdis began his career in the mid 1970’s as a writer/director,...

Everybody Has a Plan | TIFF 2012 Review

Best Laid Plans: Piterbarg Gets Double the Mortensen in Debut Argentinean director Ana Piterbarg nabs Viggo Mortensen for dual roles in her debut, a slow...

Byzantium | TIFF 2012 Review

My Favorite Sister Daughter: Jordan Hits Up the Lady Vamps Boy it’s hard to add anything new to the vampire genre, once a horror staple...

Criterion Collection: Umberto D. | Blu-ray Review

Perhaps remembered foremost for directing what is considered by many to be one of the best films of all time, Bicycle Thieves (1948), one...

Criterion Collection: Les Visiteurs Du Soir | Blu-ray Review

Known for creating some of the most important films in French history, and during Nazi Occupation, no less, Criterion issues two of Marcel Carne’s...

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | Review

The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire...

‘Neon Bull’ & ‘The Blue Trail’ Gabriel Mascaro Launches Production Company

In a rather lengthy profile piece we learnt that...

2026 TIFF: Paolo Strippoli, Anna Biller, Matthew Rankin & Eugene Kotlyarenko in Midnight Madness Section

Last year, the Midnight Madness section received one heck...
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