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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Everything is Blue for Him: Schrader Strikes the Underbelly with Underrated Debut “Blue Collar” | Blu-ray Review

Paul Schrader’s early career is a mix of seminal classics and underappreciated gems. While he began as a screenwriter, penning a thorny trifecta of...

Underwater | Review

A Time to Drill: Eubank Delves into Derivative with Studio Sci-Fi As above, so below seems to be the theme of William Eubank’s third feature,...

Criterion Collection: Betty Blue (1986) | Blu-ray Video Review

It’s time to take another look at the famed Cinema du Look auteurs of 1980s and 1990s French cinema, and what better way to...

Criterion Collection: The Story of Temple Drake (1933) | Blu-ray Video Review

“Women will understand!” read one of the many various taglines associated with The Story of Temple Drake, the pre-code rape and revenge talkie the...

The Conversation: Through the Looking Glass – Top 10 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021

Looking past the dawn of the new decade, 2021 promises to unleash a host of projects from perennial auteurs and sleeping cinematic giants. Although...

Breaking

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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