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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Cassel Gets Gifted in Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti | Blu-ray Review

French painter Paul Gauguin receives two noted cinematic approximations in 2018. Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti features Vincent Cassel as the tropically consumed...

Bodied | Review

Shock the Body Electric: Kahn Addresses Pertinent Isms in Provoking Comedy Lauded music video director Joseph Kahn delivers a successful contemporary conversation piece with sophomore...

A Private War | Review

War is War is War: Heineman Tackles the Controversial Marie Colvin in Narrative Debut Oscar nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman (2015’s Cartel Land), follows up recent...

Criterion Collection: The Naked Prey (1965) | Blu-ray Review

When one thinks of Cornel Wilde, a veritable Hollywood everyman who was peppered across a variety of noir and studio productions throughout the 1940s...

Dovlatov | Review

Author! Author!: German Jr. Tackles a Week in the Life of a Dissident Writer While it’s Alexey German Jr.’s (son of the equally idiosyncratic Alexey...

Breaking

2025 Gothams: Studio-Backed ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes on True Indies; Lands Six Noms

In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse...

Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos & Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia

There is a chaotic violence at the core of...

Exclusive Trailer: Ashes to Ashes, Toronto to Oslo in Bohdanowicz’s ‘Measures for a Funeral’ (2025)

After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival...

2025 SODEC Coin for New Projects by Philippe Lesage, Annie St-Pierre & Charlotte Le Bon

Quebec’s SODEC (the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles)...
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