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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Host | Review

Ghost in the Machine: Savage Speaks to the Moment with Creative Horror In what plays like a logical extension of the found footage subgenre, UK...

The Tax Collector | Review

Taxation without Representation: Ayer Gets Absurd in L.A. Crime Noir The most interesting element of David Ayer’s latest crime thriller The Tax Collector is how...

Retaliation | Review

In God They Trust: The Shammasian Bros. Skirt Exploitation in Brooding Character Study There are certain subjects the mere presentation of which conjures overzealousness parameters...

Love is a Battlefield in Visconti’s Swan Song, L’innocente (1976) | Blu-ray Review

Premiering out of competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival just two months after he died from a stroke, Luchino Visconti’s final masterpiece, The...

The Burnt Orange Heresy | Review

Pleasure to Burn: Capotondi Returns with Entertaining Neo-Noir Murder really can be turned into art, it seems, in Giuseppe Capotondi’s return to narrative filmmaking with...

Breaking

Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third...

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...
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