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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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...

The Day Shall Come | Review

Fooling the Children of the Revolution: Morris Returns with Dark, Political Satire Stakes are perhaps too high for writer-director Christopher Morris’s sophomore film following the...

The Golden Glove | Review

No Glove No Love: Akin Revels in Garish Grotesqueries with Squalid Period Piece Turkish-German director Fatih Akin resurrects the obscure German serial killer Fritz Honka...

Criterion Collection: The Koker Trilogy | Blu-ray Review

There isn’t a cinematic figure like any other, at least who straddled such a drastic historical divide of censorship, like Abbas Kiarostami, a pioneer...

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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