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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Zvyagintsev gets Banished to a Quiet Place in the Country with “The Banishment” | Blu-ray

More exciting than revisiting Zvyagintsev’s 2003 debut is the opportunity to see his neglected 2007 follow-up The Banishment, which is an adaptation of William...

First the Fatherland in Zvyagintsev’s “The Return” (2003) | Blu-ray Review

Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev famously nabbed the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for his auspicious directorial debut The Return, an allegorical...

Walsh Gets Wacky in ‘The Revolt of Mamie Stover’ (1956) | Blu-ray Review

In hindsight, something as tawdry and salacious as The Revolt of Mamie Stover seems to have been enhanced by the severe restrictions of the...

Desplechin gets Ish with “Ismael’s Ghosts” | DVD Review

A star-studded cast can’t quite save Arnaud Desplechin’s troubled dramedy Ismael’s Ghosts, which opened the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition entry (a...

Nico, 1988 | Review

What Costume Shall the Poor Girl Wear?: Nicchiarelli Knits Stellar Portrait of a Troubled Artist “I’ve been at the bottom and I’ve been at the...

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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Review

Holy War: Mahershala Ali Unleashes Fatherly Vengeance Your Mother Your...

The Debut | 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

A Star Is Reborn: Julianne Moore Powers Jesse Eisenberg’s...

Children of the Monkey (I figli della scimmia) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Favorited Son: Landucci Looks at How Love Can...

Back to Buenos Aires | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Doctor and the Devils: Bechis Explores the Agony...
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