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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Columbus | Review

Floating Weeds: Kogonada Looks at the Shape of Things in Masterful Debut Kogonada, who may be familiar to most cineastes thanks to his video essays...

Kidnap | Review

Female of the Species: Berry Brings It in Middlebrow Action Drama Playing like a throwback to 1990s studio thrillers starring Oscar caliber actresses navigating survival...

Detroit | Review

Horror Hotel: Bigelow and Boal Recount Grim Chapter of Racial Disparity This year’s most harrowing horror movie, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, happens to be based on...

Criterion Collection: L’Argent | Blu-ray Review

In more ways than one, L’Argent, the stunning final film of Robert Bresson, (anointed ‘patron saint of cinema’), plays like an eerie prequel to...

The Crimson Kimono (1959) | Blu-ray Review

Samuel Fuller finished out the 1950s with the underappreciated noir The Crimson Kimono, a film which perhaps spins its wheels on an even bigger...

Breaking

Pillion | Review

Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut There’s...

Interview: György Pálfi & Zsófia Ruttkay – Hen

In 2025 cinema embraced the POV of our winged...

2025 Les Arcs Film Festival: New Lisa Brühlmann, Mar Coll & Lina Soualem Projects In Development

A longstanding champion of emerging European cinema, the Les...

Nouvelle Vague | Review

Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured...
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