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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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II | Blu-ray Review

Kino Lorber unleashes their second volume of forgotten film noir classics with Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II which includes three distinctly...

Dancing Like She’s Never Danced Before: Lustig’s Grisly Grindhouse “Maniac” Gets an Ultra Redux | Blu-ray Review

Perhaps one of the oddest inspirations which resulted from William Lustig’s grindhouse narrative debut, which became a major cult classic, was Michael Sembello’s song,...

Dead Again: Fulci’s “Zombie” (1979) Cult Classic Finds New Life | Blu-ray Review

Italian ‘Maestro of Gore’ Lucio Fulci canvassed a wide array of genres. Not unlike his colleague Mario Bava, his filmography resists being pigeonholed, seeing...

Bird Talk (2019) | Review

Goodbye to Language: The Final Gasp of Zulawski Presents a Fractured Portrait of Contemporary Poland Language and culture are prominent motifs in the filmography of...

The Vast of Night | Review

Blast from the Vast: Patterson Impresses with Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Occasionally, an innovative debut manages to come along which accomplishes a formidable mise en scene...

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