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:

Lady Bird | Review

Call Her by Her Name: Gerwig Shifts Shrewdly in Director’s Seat Actress Greta Gerwig, alum of the American film movement known as Mumblecore and ingenious...

Kidnap | Blu-ray Review

Halle Berry continues her unwavering dedication to remaining a B-movie maven with Luis Prieto’s Kidnap, a lean, mean adrenaline pumping slice of 1990s style...

The Midwife | DVD Review

What seemed like a novel idea, pairing two of French cinema’s contemporary icons from opposing schools of expression (the dramatically inclined Catherine Deneuve and...

The Green Slime (1968) | Blu-ray Review

There are several significant elements lost in translation in the wonderful failed experiment that is The Green Slime, a 1968 B-grade (or lower) sci-fi...

Novitiate | Review

And Then There Were Nun: Betts’ Novel Approach to the Nunnery Director Maggie Betts revisits a fascinating transitional period in the Catholic church with her...

Breaking

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...

Romería | Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After...
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