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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Criterion Collection: Cold Water (1994) | Blu-ray Review

Occasionally, a rare cinematic kernel lost to the ages due to whatever obsequious copyright or distributor issues, manages to resurface despite the odds. We...

The Oath | Review

We Will Never Be Loyals: Barinholtz Gets Guignol in Acerbic Political Satire Actor/comedian Ike Barinholtz uses gleeful absurdity to provide some food for thought on...

Political Pleasures in Potter’s The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) | Blu-ray Review

Few of director H.C. Potter’s films seem to have endured the tests of time, at least as far as influence. Despite having directed several...

Post Rings Twice with Devious The Baby (1973) | Blu-ray Review

A prolific television director throughout the 1950s and 60s (the 1955 series “Waterfront” would land him a Primetime Emmy nod), Ted Post benefitted from...

Dumont’s a Delicacy with Childhood of a Martyr in Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Blu-ray Review

Nearly a year after its celebrated premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Bruno Dumont’s instant cult musical Jeannette: The Childhood...

Breaking

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Review

Tom Cruise Can’t Stunt His Way Out Of A...

Sound of Falling | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Schilinksi...

L’intérêt d’Adam | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

No Bandaid Solutions: Wandel’s Suffocating Drama Explores Collective Collateral...

Enzo | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Call Me By Your Pain: Campillo Gently Guides Cantet’s...
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