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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Union Square | Review

Mighty Flighty: Nancy Savoca Gives Mira Sorvino a Role to Revel In Nancy Savoca returns with Union Square, her first film in nearly a decade,...

Interview: Nicholas McCarthy (The Pact)

We sat down with director Nicholas McCarthy after the world premiere of his feature film debut, The Pact, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival....

The Pact | Review

One muddled alliance: Seek Out McCarthy's Short Version Nicholas McCarthy’s feature debut, The Pact, expands upon his successful short film of the same name,...

2012 LAFF: The Banishment | Review

Retrieved from Exile: Zvyagintsev’s Dismissed Sophomore Effort a Neglected Masterpiece Newly minted Russian auteur Andrei Zvyagintsev’s second feature, 2007’s maligned The Banishment, has been resurrected...

2012 LAFF: The Breaking Point (1950) | Review

Point of No Return: A Curtiz Classic Resurrected While history prizes a 1944 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s story To Have and Have Not, there does...

Breaking

Fjord | Review

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

Interview: Jacqueline Lentzou – A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra

A poem. A song. An argument. An apology. Inspired...

Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – The Echo Chamber

With his fourth feature film, Andrea Pallaoro turns his...

Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee...
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