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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On the Milky Road | Review

Road to Nowhere: Kusturica Returns with Aimless War-Torn Fairy Tale All’s certainly not fair in love nor war in Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s first film...

Tuesday Blus: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno & Delmer Daves’ The Hanging Tree

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009) Film Review: ★★★½/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ After Dante Alighieri but before Dario Argento and...

From the Vault: Postwar Brit Noir at the Quad

Typically, formulated definitions of what constitutes film noir, a movement of morally ambiguous cinematic tendencies which took place in glorious black and white throughout...

Tuesday Blus: The Witches, The Aviator and Bigas Lunas’ Jamon, Jamon

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Jamon, Jamon (1992) Film Review: ★★★½/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ After rising to acclaim through the late 1970s and...

Criterion Collection: Kameradschaft | Blu-ray Review

A progressive call to unity between the historically at odds French and German cultures, G.W. Pabst’s 1931 classic Comradeship (Kameradschaft) which concerns a team...

Breaking

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

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

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

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

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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