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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Criterion Collection: Teorema (1968) | Blu-ray Review

“Whatever the bourgeois do is wrong?” is a question posited in the flurried opening segment of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s arcane arthouse classic Teorema, a...

One Flew Over the Butcher Shop: Altman’s Klutzy Crafting of “Beyond Therapy” (1987) | Blu-ray Review

The 1980s were a difficult period for Robert Altman, stumbling into the decade with two high profile projects, HealtH and Popeye, both poorly received....

Resistance | Review

The Wages of Ham: Jakubowicz Mimes Melodrama in Offkey Resistance For his third film, Venezuelan born Jonathan Jakubowicz falls headlong into an acceptable faux pas...

Vivarium | Review

Life as a House: Beware the Burbs in Finnegan’s Metaphorical Sophomore Feature The novelty of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone,” or any of its various...

Human Capital (2020) | Review

It’s Easier for a Camel…: Meyers and Moverman Craft Serviceable, Familiar Remake Although it pulls no punches in its re-working of Paolo Virzi’s 2013 title...

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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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