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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Love is Darkness in French-tinted Noir from Joseph H. Lewis’ So Dark the Night (1946) | Blu-ray Review

For his follow-up to the box-office success My Name is Julia Ross, Joseph H. Lewis turned to the French countryside for So Dark the...

Gaslighting’s a Gas in Dark-hearted Lewis Noir ‘My Name is Julia Ross’ | Blu-ray Review

Without a doubt, American director Joseph H. Lewis is best remembered for his contributions to film noir, particularly his 1950 classic Gun Crazy and...

Criterion Collection: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Blu-ray Review

The crown jewel of the New Romanian Cinema was Cristian Mungiu’s controversial abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which took...

The Conversation: The Din in Berlin – Top 10 Best of the 69th Berlinale

The 69th Berlinale will be remembered as a rather curious transitional year for the festival, the final year of its 4th director, Dieter Kosslick,...

Hotel by the River | Review

Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...

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Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...
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