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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Daughters of Darkness: Losey’s Neglected, Eccentric Psychodrama “Secret Ceremony” Resurrected | Blu-ray Review

“It’s Time to Speak of Unspoken Things,” read the tagline for Joseph Losey’s 1968 psychodrama Secret Ceremony, a bizarro bit of tawdriness about two...

Criterion Collection: The Cremator | Blu-ray Review

Criterion restores a cornerstone of the Czech New Wave with Juraj Herz’s classic The Cremator, a chilly dark comedy set in 1930s Prague which...

Criterion Collection: Destry Rides Again | Blu-ray Review

George Marshall’s classic comedy Western Destry Rides Again finally gets its due with its inclusion in the esteemed Criterion Collection. A notable entry in...

Valley Girl | Review

A Boho in Noho: Goldenberg Slathers a Classic in Nostalgic Reminisces Feeling nostalgic is akin to wearing rose-color glasses, distorting our tender reminiscing of bygone...

How to Build a Girl | Review

The Girl Most Likely To…: Giedroyc Returns with Novel Coming-of-Age Dramedy In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new---a...

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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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