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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Sapphic Salutations in the Salacious “The Killing of Sister George” (1968) | Blu-ray Review

Thanks to 2017’s “Feud,” it’s a prime time to examine some of the underrated gems from the filmography of Robert Aldrich, an underrated director...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2019

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Through the Looking Glass: Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #5 to #1

New projects directed by auteurs from France, Italy, China and the UK take slots 5 to 1 in our most anticipated foreign films of...

Touch Me Not | Review

Touch All This Skin: Pintilie’s Hybrid Sexcapade Explores the Fleeting, Obscure Nature of Intimacy With her narrative debut Touch Me Not, Romanian director Adina Pintilie...

Through the Looking Glass: Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #10 to #6

New projects directed by auteurs from Mexico, Brazil, Ukraine, Thailand and Hungary make up slots 6 to 10 in our most anticipated foreign films...

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