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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Arkansas | Review

Deal of Fortune: Duke Attempts Neo-noir in Passionless Debut Drug running is generally an unromantic career choice, at least up until the inevitable thrills to...

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind | Review

This Property is Condemned: Bouzereau Recuperates an Icon with Familial Portrait Her death by drowning at the age of forty-three while vacationing on Catalina Island...

On a Magical Night | Review

A Room with a Screw: Honoré Waxes Playful on Marital Discord The flexibility (or lack thereof) of fidelity in heteronormative relationships is at the center...

Sex, Lies and Emancipate: Schlesinger Finds Fantasy in New Wave Classic “Billy Liar” (1963) | Blu-Ray Review

An important piece of the short-lived British New Wave of the early 1960s was John Schlesinger’s sophomore film Billy Liar (1963). But if the...

A Woman is a Woman: De Sica Does MacLaine in Enjoyable Omnibus “Woman Times Seven” (1967) | Blu-ray Review

Long gone are the days when a vignette styled filmed would be crafted for the purposes of showcasing a talented performer, at least to...

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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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