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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Interview: Author Tom Sturges – The Lady Eve | Criterion Collection

I had the chance to speak to Tom Sturges (noted music executive, author, and speaker), the son of director Preston Sturges, to converse about...

Fatal Affair | Review

Temptation Machination: Sullivan Explores Ills of Infidelity in Extramarital Thriller “The house is new but the man is not,” jests the unfortunate protagonist in Peter...

Skin is In: Ishii’s Signature Erotic Violence in Inferno of Torture (1969) | Blu-ray Review

An unsung eccentric of Japanese cinema is Teruo Ishii, referred to in his native country as ‘the King of Cult,’ whose forays into Ere...

Criterion Collection: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) | Blu-ray Review

In a world concerned with rigid dichotomies, there remains a roughhewn juxtaposition of the male gaze and the female gaze. Taking into consideration the...

It Takes a Village: Filho & Dornelles Smash Art-House into Grindhouse Bacurau (2019) | Blu-ray Review

Bacurau, the third feature from Kleber Mendonca Filho, co-directed by Juliano Dornelles (who served as production designer on Filho’s Neighboring Sounds in 2012 and...

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2026 Cannes: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Selected for Cannes Premiere (!?)

There was no mention this morning for a film...

2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp

A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according...

2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette

The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and...
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