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: Barry Lyndon (1975) | Blu-ray Review

Within the omnipresent and overpowering narration guiding Barry Lyndon, a passage on the title character’s wife describes her as “not very much more important...

Aurora Borealis | 2017 Warsaw Film Festival Review

Daughters of the Dawn: Meszaros Examines Painful Period with Reconciliation Drama Hungary’s cinematic canon can’t be discussed without a deliberation on the importance of Marta...

Criterion Collection: Personal Shopper | Blu-ray Review

One of French auteur Olivier Assayas’ most divisive films to date (it drew jeers at its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but...

Criterion Collection: The Lure | Blu-ray Review

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s idiosyncratic directorial debut The Lure has cult classic written all over it. A fairy tale about two siren sisters in 1980’s Warsaw...

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | Review

Women Wanted: Robinson Explores the Fascinating Origins of Wonder Woman in Solid Biopic Truth may often be stranger than fiction, but it’s not always as...

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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