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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Synonyms | Review

Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities The rejection of self and the adoption of persona are prominent themes pouring...

Criterion Collection: Fists in the Pocket | Blu-ray Review

Criterion re-releases the mordant directorial debut of Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, Fists in the Pocket (1965), just as the perennial filmmaker ends his sixth...

And Then There Were Nuns in Berruti’s Neglected Camp Classic “Killer Nun” (1979) | Blu-ray Review

Arrow Video resurrects one of nunsploitation cinema’s greatest outliers with the Anita Ekberg headlined Killer Nun, a 1979 oddity about a morphine addicted nun whose...

The Lighthouse | Review

I Can Hear the Mermaids Singing: Eggers Unleashes a Hyper-Stylized Portrait of Nautical Madness Virginia Woolf (who, having known something about the subject and its...

Eli | Review

Devil May Care: Foy Falters with Campy Horror Flick Director Ciarán Foy continues with genre in third narrative feature, Eli, a B-grade horror film...

Breaking

Little Trouble Girls | Review

Circles of Perfection: Djukić Surveys the Compromises of Sexual...

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...
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