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.

Exclusive articles:

The Flesh (1991) | Blu-ray Review

Marco Ferreri remains one of the unsung provocateurs from Italy’s golden age of contemporary auteurs, an idiosyncratic conveyor of carnal desires and consuming passions...

Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) | Blu-ray Review

Arrow Video resurrects one of Italian horror maestro Luci Fulci’s (the Godfather of Gore) best but most obscure titles, the enigmatically titled Don’t Torture...

Blade Runner 2049 | Review

A Time to Brood: Villeneuve Delivers Sleek, Stylized Mood Noir with Sci-Fi Sequel Do androids dream of electric sheep? It’s a question never completely answered,...

Night Moves (1975) | Blu-ray Review

Released between a pair of revisionist Westerns (1970’s Little Big Man and 1976’s The Missouri Breaks), Arthur Penn’s 1975 neo-noir Night Moves remains an...

Criterion Collection: The Piano Teacher | Blu-ray Review

Rare are the performers who can surpass the sadistic tendencies of an oligarchically inclined auteur, but there exists no finer example of this than...

Breaking

Eagles of the Republic | Review

One Flew Over the Coup’s Nest: Saleh Muddles Through...

Erupcja | Review

Sympathy Is A Knife: Charli xcx Shines In This...

Interview: Pete Ohs – Erupcja (Work in Progress)

Filmmaker Pete Ohs likely needs no introduction, nor do...

2026 Telefilm Canada: Zarrar Kahn, Yung Chang, Sarah Gadon, Matt Johnson & Luis De Filippis Get Coin

Telefilm Canada are investing a significant amount of coin...
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