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: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Blu-ray Review

With unprecedented providence! Criterion re-releases Paul Schrader’s 1985 masterpiece Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters the same month the neglected auteur’s equally superb First...

Tuesday Blus: In Yet Another Country with Hong Sang-soo

Kicking off one of South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s most prolific years to date, his masterful On the Beach at Night Alone premiered in...

Tuesday Blus: You Can Make It If You Try with Claude Berri’s The Two of Us

Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a theatrical re-release of its restoration in late 2017, The Cohen Media Group resurrects the winning debut of Claude...

Criterion Collection: Moonrise | Blu-ray Review

For a two-time Academy Award winning director, Frank Borzage remains one of the most neglected studio auteurs of Hollywood’s childhood, one of the few...

Tuesday Blus: Stayin’ Alive with Larry Cohen | Blu-ray Review

As far as devious killer babies go, Larry Cohen’s seminal It’s Alive trilogy is, alongside Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1969), a cornerstone of the...

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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...

A Bit of Light | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Under the Cherry Moon: Asgari Lets the Sun Shine...
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