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.

Exclusive articles:

Criterion Collection: Cluny Brown (1946) | Blu-ray Review

Criterion resurrects Ernst Lubitsch’s final completed film Cluny Brown (1946), a post-war comedy about pre-WWII class divisions in 1938 England. Headlined by Jennifer Jones,...

Babes in Toyland: Brasloff’s Kooky Kink Surfaces in Toys Are Not For Children | Blu-ray Review

If you’re in search for a forgotten psychosexual oddity, look no further than director Stanley H. Brasloff’s second (and unfortunately last) 1972 feature Toys...

Joker | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

The Day the Clown Cried: Phillips Tries to Provoke the Herd in Adult Comic Book Origin Story As another cinematic iteration of the eponymous Joker...

Lucy in the Sky | Review

Loosey Goosey: Hawley Gets Histrionic with Uneven Melodrama At the end of Now, Voyager (1942) the chain-smoking Bette Davis delivers her iconic line to Paul...

Some Like Them Young in Wilder’s “The Major and the Minor” (1942) | Blu-ray Review

Billy Wilder became an indelible fixture of American cinema with his iconic noir masterpiece, 1944’s Double Indemnity, going on to direct some of the studio...

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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