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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Another Old Dark House: Larraz Gets Derivative with Final English Language Title Deadly Manor (1990) | Blu-ray Review

Arrow Video continues to reconstitute the filmography of Spanish genre filmmaker Jose Ramon Larraz with his final English language thriller, Deadly Manor (originally released...

Greed | Review

In a Rich Man’s World: Winterbottom Wobbles with Elementary Satire Perennial British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who has presented a number of different narratives across...

All the Dead Ones | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Turn and Face the Strange: Caetano & Gotardo Navigate Displacement in Stellar Period Piece The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women read “It’s...

The Assistant | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Executive Suite: Green Metes Modern Monsters in Narrative Debut  Documentarian Kitty Green (last on hand with her unique memory tapestry Casting JonBenet, 2017) moves into...

Hidden Away | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Painter Man: Diritti Resurrects Famed Italian Artist Italian director Giorgio Diritti presents his first film in seven years with Hidden Away, a biopic on famed...

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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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