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.

Exclusive articles:

The Sunlit Night | Review

Norway Out: Wnendt Paints a Blank Slate in Slight Romantic Drama Expectations seemed reasonably high for The Sunlit Night, the English language debut from provocative...

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...

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...
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