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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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...

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

And between the remakes, prequels, sequels, reboots and rehashes pouring out of the Hollywood studio system, we sift through the detritus of continual superhero...

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...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!

The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winners...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Léa Mysius’ ‘Histoires de la Nuit’

Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on...

The Black Ball (La bola negra) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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