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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Relic | Review

Dementia Seed: James Concocts Brooding Debut of Intergenerational Horror A growing influx of low-fi genre films, many directed by women, have steadily redefined broad categorizations...

The Beach House | Review

And the Sea Will Kill: Brown’s Blends Menace with Familiar Tropes in Eco-Horror Debut Horror films have often benefitted from man vs. nature themes, and...

The Old Guard | Review

No Man Could Be Their Equal: Prince-Bythewood Ponders Immortality with Graphic Novel Adaptation Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s fourth film is a marked departure from her previous...

The Doctor and the Devils: Pabst’s Subversive UFA Propaganda Revisited in Paracelsus (1943) | Blu-ray Review

Austrian born G.W. Pabst remains one of the most celebrated figures of German language cinema in the Weimar Republic, his enduring works featuring Louise...

Criterion Collection: An Unmarried Woman (1978) | Blu-ray Review

Academy-Award nominated writer/director Paul Mazursky makes his first entry into the Criterion canon with his sixth feature, the seminal (first-wave) feminist landmark An Unmarried...

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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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