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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The Intruder | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Sound of My Voice: Meta Delivers Masterful Psychological Identity Horror Does it come from without or within? ‘It’ being the perception of danger, delusion...

2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

For its 70th edition, the Berlinale begins a new era by adding some new categories (mainly the newly minted Encounters program, a competition for...

The Night Clerk | Review

Spy Hard: Cristofer Returns with Faulty Noir It’s been nearly twenty years since Pulitzer Prize winning scribe Michael Cristofer has developed a theatrical feature, last...

Criterion Collection: The Fugitive Kind (1960) | Blu-ray Review

“It’s time to speak of unspoken things,” is the tagline for a forgotten late 1960s Joseph Losey film called Secret Ceremony, an odd psychodrama...

Criterion Blu-ray: Antonio Gaudí (1984) | Video Blu-ray Review

A hypnotic homage serving as part-travelogue, part visionary curation of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi’s (1852-1926) masterworks in Barcelona, Japanese auteur Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1984 documentary...

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2026 Oscars: The Golden Globe Six Among the International Feature Shortlist

The Oscars have announced the shortlists in 12 categories...

Interview: Ntobeko Sishi – Laundry (2025)

We first became aware of South Africa filmmaker Zamo...

Interview: Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme

Marty Supreme marks a new evolution in the work...
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