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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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...

The Cookie Crumbles in Altman’s The Gingerbread Man (1998) | Blu-ray Review

From the B-side of Robert Altman’s filmography is his 1998 attempt at neo-noir with The Gingerbread Man, based on an original screenplay by John...

Mary Queen of Scots | Review

Two Queens Stand Before Me: Rourke’s Reticent Recapitulation of a Doomed Queen Not since Charles Jarrott’s 1971 mounting of the infamous demise of Mary Stuart,...

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