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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Spetters (1980) | Blu-ray Review

No one marries the cultural complexities of sexuality and its impassioned, sometimes grotesque aftershocks better than Paul Verhoeven, particularly before his uneven Hollywood years...

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud | Blu-ray Review

British import J. Lee Thompson was perhaps most revered in the 1950s and 60s, competing in Cannes (the Diana Dors headlined Yield to the...

Special Delivery (1976) | Blu-ray Review

This forgotten oddity from the mid-1970s features Cybill Shepherd shortly out of the shadows from Peter Bogdanovich and Swedish import Bo Svenson. A bank...

Hereditary | Review

Inherit the Wind: Aster Conjures a Horror Classic with Masterful Debut For those familiar with director Ari Aster’s body of short films, beginning with his...

Criterion Collection: Beyond the Hills | Blu-ray Review

For his third film, and his follow-up to his 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu, titan of...

Breaking

YES | Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially,...

Kontinental ’25 | Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status...

Alpha | Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Midnight, Cannes Premiere, Special Screenings, Out of Comp

Before we dive headfirst into full-on Palme d’Or predictions...
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