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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Love Affair(s) | Cannes 2020 Label Review

The Most Important Thing is to Love: Mouret’s Loquacious Ode to Capricious Romance(s) With narratives often constructed on the gossamer threads of human interactions, it’s...

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...

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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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