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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If Beale Street Could Talk | Review

I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...

The Conversation: The Top 20 Theatrical Releases of 2018 – Picks 10 to 1

continued from yesterday, Nicholas Bell's Top 20 theatrical releases of 2018. #10. The House That Jack Built – Dir. Lars Von Trier The film’s finale, which...

The Conversation: The Top 20 Theatrical Releases of 2018

It was a strong year for wicked and weird in cinema---if you knew where to look for it. A strong showing of women directors...

Criterion Collection: A Story from Chikamatsu | Blu-ray Review

Playing like the tortured precursor to Masahiro Shinoda’s similarly tragic tale of stymied romance with 1969’s Double Suicide is the great Kenji Mizoguchi’s late...

Much Ado About Marriage in Pevney’s Firefox (1955) | Blu-ray Review

Like nearly all of director Joseph Pevney’s films, 1955’s Foxfire has been more or less forgotten, despite starring Jane Russell. It’s a pity considering...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’

Koji Fukada emerged as one of the major voices...

A Woman’s Life (La Vie d’une femme) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Things to Come: Bourgeois-Tacquet Explores an Affair to Remember Crimes...

Nagi Notes | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Only the Lonely: Fukada Explores Constructions of Identity Japanese auteur...
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