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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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...

Life After Wartime: Balagov Crafts Exemplary Portrait of Post-WWII Role of Women with “Beanpole” (2019) | Blu-ray Review

Winning the Best Director Prize out of Un Certain Regard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival (where it also took home the FIPRESCI Prize),...

The Painted Bird | Review

Cruel Intentions: Marhoul Razes & Repulses in Torturous, Ambitious WWII Saga Czech actor/director Václav Marhoul mounts a sadistic nightmare of Holocaust horrors via his third...

Palm Springs | Review

Quantum Leap: Barbakow Recycles Tropes for Amusing Romantic Comedy Debut The idea of being stuck in an endless time loop, being forced to endure the...

Greyhound | Review

Showboating: Schneider Sinks Ships with WWII Historical Action Cinema is littered with war-time submarine action epics, a claustrophobic setting which taps into universal anxieties and...

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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