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.

Exclusive articles:

The Mustang | Review

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?: de Clermont-Tonnerre Leads Us to Water with Minimalist Melodrama Animal love is at the heart of Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s directorial...

Knife + Heart | Review

Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key Light: Gonzalez’s Queer Giallo a Dicey Mélange Love as an overwhelming, all-consuming fire...

Ash Is Purest White | Review

Love is Like a Stove: Zhangke Tackles Genre in Time-Spanning Romance Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke continues to experiment in tone and form with his latest...

3 Faces | Review

Faces, Places: Panahi Provokes the Patriarchy in Quiet Hybrid Drama Now nearly half way through his twenty-year ban from filmmaking, (a damning sentence passed down...

Criterion Collection: Shame (1968) | Blu-ray Review

Things were grim in 1968, the reflection of which was interpreted by Ingmar Bergman, who delivered two of his bleakest portraits beginning with his...

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...
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