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: Jabberwocky (1977) | Blu-ray Review

It was rather a rough start for Terry Gilliam’s solo directorial career. While 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which Gilliam co-directed with...

Tuesday Blus: Max Ophüls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman, Nolan’s Dunkirk & Bigelow’s Detroit

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Dunkirk (2017) - Warner Bros., Detroit (2017) - Twentieth Century Fox, Letter from an...

Tuesday Blus: Arturo Ripstein’s Time to Die, John Trengove’s The Wound, Etc.

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: The Wound (2017) – Kino Lorber / Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) – Kino Lorber...

The Disaster Artist | Review

A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...

Wonder Wheel | Review #2

The Wheel of Their Discontent: Allen Stages Crumbling Marital Drama in the Dog Days of Coney Island As impeccably administered as it is at times...

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2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops

Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up,...

Interview: Ulises Porra – Under the Same Sun

For his third feature, Ulises Porra embarks on an...

Duolingo Mode: Sebastian Stan Targets ‘Impunity’ in Gálvez’s Pinochet-Era Spy Thriller

After returning to his Romanian roots for Cristian Mungiu’s...

Die My Love | Review

Images of Yellow Wallpaper: Ramsay Charts a Psychotic Break For...
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