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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Jimmy Eats World in Schepisi’s Early “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith” (1978) | Blu-ray Review

Fred Schepisi’s 1978 sophomore film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith holds a significant prominence in the Australian New Wave, which revitalized Australia’s film industry...

Whoa, Nelly: Sautet’s Final Neglected Classic “Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud” (1995) | Blu-ray Review

Claude Sautet took home a Best Director Cesar and lead Michel Serrault nabbed Best Actor for their work on the subtle melodrama Nelly and...

Criterion Collection: Do the Right Thing (1989) | Blu-ray Review

Just in time for the film’s thirtieth anniversary, the Criterion Collection resurrects Spike Lee’s masterpiece Do the Right Thing with a 4K restoration for...

Criterion Collection: A Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman | Blu-ray Review

Criterion re-releases restorations of three Ingmar Bergman titles with A Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman, the collection’s first presentation of the Swedish auteurs works originally...

Sister Aimee | Review

If You Seek Aimee: Buck & Schlingmann Resurrect a Fallen Angel Directors Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann succeed with one overarching point in their indie-ensconced...

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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