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 Pornographer Always Shoots Twice: West Taps into Grindhouse Sleaze with Backwoods Romp It was Foucault, proponent of classifying the orgasm as a ‘little death,’...

Deep Water | Review

An Affair to Dismember: Lyne Returns to Remind Us of the Adult in Adultery “The love story is never the whole story,” is a fitting...

Criterion Collection: Love Affair (1939) | Blu-ray Review

If there’s any film which really conjures an ‘empire state of mind,’ it’s Leo McCarey’s 1939 romantic tearjerker, Love Affair. Strangely, despite an intensely...

Great Freedom | Review

Laws of Attraction: Rogowski Shines Bright in Recuperative Queer Prison Drama Although there’s nary an upside down pink triangle in sight, Austria’s Sebastian Meise cultivates...

Written on the Wind (1956) | Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review

Despite having directed several dozen films across a career which ranged from 1930s Germany to late 1950s Hollywood, Douglas Sirk is best remembered for...

Breaking

YES | Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially,...

Kontinental ’25 | Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status...

Alpha | Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Midnight, Cannes Premiere, Special Screenings, Out of Comp

Before we dive headfirst into full-on Palme d’Or predictions...
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