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:

Maurice (1987) | Blu-ray Review

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature,” states a congenial Ben Kingsley, playing a minor role as a doctor in the Merchant-Ivory...

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...

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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