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:

Midsommar | Review

Secret Ceremony: Aster Gets Cruel for the Summer with Wicked Rituals Director Ari Aster, who revitalized the potential of psychological horror with his phenomenal 2018...

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) | Review

No Man of Her Own: Vigne’s Classic Medieval Identity Drama Resurrected In the early 1980s, French director Daniel Vigne seemed poised to be one of...

The Conversation: Leaping to Locarno’s Leopard

Arriving August 7th and extending through August 17th, the Locarno Film Festival and its leaping Leopard is the final stepping stone before the grand...

Criterion Collection: Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Blu-ray Review

Few queer films have pierced the contemporary cultural nexus as effectively as John Cameron Mitchell’s beloved 2001 directorial debut Hedwig and the Angry Inch,...

You Gotta Have Face: Kinski Finds Kinky in Freda’s “Double Face” (1969) | Blu-ray Review

Arrow Video seems to be staging a bit of a Riccardo Freda renaissance. Several weeks after recuperating his odd 1971 Irish giallo The Iguana...

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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