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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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...

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...

Breaking

Queen at Sea | Review

(Get) Away From Her: Hammer Returns with Elder Ethical...

Gentle Monster | Review

The Children’s Hour: Kreutzer Poses Provocative Dilemmas The complex trappings...

Interview: Damian Kocur – La Manche | 2026 Venice Gap-Financing Market

As part of our coverage at the recent Venice...
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