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 Heiresses (Las herederas) | Review

Inherit the Wind: Martinessi Explores Class and Desire in Impressive Character Study While they seem to have outlived their best of times, the two privileged...

Close | Review

But No Cigar: Jewson’s Bodyguard Thriller Nary Skirts the Surface of Female Agency Director Vicky Jewson continues to mine the role of women working in...

Glass | Review

Walking on Broken Glass: Shyamalan Completes Superhero Trilogy with Chatty, Diagnostic Denouement For a film nineteen years in the making, M. Night Shyamalan’s highly anticipated...

Pity | Review

Help Me, I’m Poor: Makridis Adds a Footnote to the Greek Cinema Look no further than Babis Makridis’ sophomore feature, the bluntly named Pity, for...

Perilous Passions in Aldrich’s Neglected “The Grissom Gang” (1971) | Blu-ray Review

And the final nail in the coffin of Aldrich Studios was 1971’s The Grissom Gang, an adaptation of famed UK noir writer James Hadley...

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