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: 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...

Burning | Review

A Touch of Class: Chang-dong Returns with Masterful Class Clash Puns concerns its slow build will be sincerely intended in forthcoming deliberations on South Korean...

Halloween | Review

To Grandmother’s House We Go: Green Succeeds with Obedient Resurrection of the Carpenter Classic The original tagline for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween, which...

Love is a Battlefield in Cocteau’s Portrait of Familial Dysfunction Les Parents Terribles (1948) | Blu-ray Review

If Frank Capra had been around to tackle a Harold Robbins’ novel, it might have a vibe such as Jean Cocteau’s forgotten 1948 masterpiece,...

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