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: Cold War | Blu-ray Review

Polish auteur Pawel Pawlikowski ascends to the Criterion Collection with his 2018 success Cold War, which competed at Cannes (winning him Best Director), and...

Mickey and the Bear | Review

A Bear to Care: Attanasio Scores Modest, Sincere Debut Although lacking in originality and narrative energy, director Annabelle Attanasio more often than not makes up...

Dark Waters | Review

Far From Heaven: Haynes Mounts Modest Environmental Drama In the oft-prestigious subgenre of environmental thrillers, particularly those detailing the grossly inhuman actions of powerful...

Love is Like Woe: Duvivier Crashes into Romance in Final Film Diabolically Yours (1967) | Blu-ray Review

Kino Lorber resurrects Diabolically Yours, the final film from French auteur Julien Duvivier, arguably the most neglected member of the “Big Five” of classic...

Rebel Spirit: The Films of Patricia Mazuy

Patricia Mazuy is back! And who is Patricia Mazuy, many English language cinephiles may ask? For the past thirty years, Mazuy has steadily built...

Breaking

La grazia | Review

The Long Goodbye: Sorrentino Returns to Familiar Remembrances of...

Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born...

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the...

Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals...
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