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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Stardust [Video Review]

Stars Are Blind: Range Paints a Portrait of the Bowie as a Young Man The risk with creating a project about a major cultural icon...

Lovers Rock | Review

Joyful Noise: McQueen Makes the People Come Together in First “Small Axe” Segment Director Steve McQueen surprises with Lovers Rock, the second leg of his...

Malina (1991) | Review

You Can’t Handle the Fugue: Schroeter Burns Bright with Infamous Bachmann Adaptation What is it about Werner Schroeter’s Malina so seemingly repellant it resulted in...

Monsoon [Video Review]

Weathering Heights: Khaou Searches for Solace in Stodgy Travelogue The adage born from Thomas Wolfe’s sentiment notwithstanding, the act of revisiting one’s origins through a...

Shallow Grave(s): Revenge Twice Told in Zarchi’s Landmark “I Spit on Your Grave” Blu-ray Box Set Review

Chances are, if you’re familiar with grindhouse/exploitation films of the 1970s or the output of later auteurs these titles influenced, you’ve heard and likely...

Breaking

Interview: Producer Tristan Scott-Behrends – Bunnylovr (Work in Progress)

In what seems to be an exploration of duality,...

Interview: Gabriel Mascaro – The Blue Trail (O Último Azul)

We have long admired the cinema of Brazilian filmmaker...
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