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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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Review

Lars Von Trier Would Weep: Scafaria’s Roadtrip Romance Facelifts Apocalypse Old Hollywood studios had it good. Between two World Wars and countless other miseries (like...

LAFF 2012: Dead Man’s Burden | Review

Dry-Eyed Narrative: Jared Moshe’s Western Exercise An Intriguing Effort Producer Jared Moshe’s directorial debut, Dead Man’s Burden, is a mostly winsome procedure as an homage...

People Like Us | Review

Alex Kurtzman’s Debut A Bombastic, Exercise in the Unsubtle With several successful (quality questionable) screenplays under his belt, Alex Kurtzman, the man who co-wrote the...

To Rome With Love | Review

Roma, Ti Amo: Woody Allen Sketches Snippets of the Eternal City Say what you will about Woody Allen, but he’s had an amazing decade with...

The Tortured | Review

Apt Title Foretells Effect on its Audience: Lieberman’s Absurd Attempt at Horror Robert Lieberman’s latest film, a quaggy, moronic torture porn debacle, ironically titled The...

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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