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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Turner Gets Turnt in Rich’s Classic Melodrama Madame X (1966) | Blu-ray Review

Remakes may seem like a contemporary Hollywood trend, but the process has been a staple of the medium since the inception of cinema. Whether...

Criterion Collection: Let the Sunshine In | Blu-ray Review

Claire Denis had one of her most prominent showings in over a decade with her 2017 title Let the Sunshine In, a melancholy rom...

Resnais Explores a History of Violins in Doomed Love Triangle “Mélo” (1986) | Blu-ray Review

For the second-to-last feature Alain Resnais made in the 1980s, Mélo (1986) is arguably his most accessible, set in 1920s Paris and based on...

Lelio Runs Pell Mell with Ms. Gloria Bell (2018) | Blu-ray Review

Sebastián Lelio scored his best domestic box office success to date with Gloria Bell, his English language remake of 2013’s Gloria, clocking in at...

Oleg | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

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

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