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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The Midwife | Review

Midwife Crisis: Provost Squanders Fine Cast in Trite Melodrama The essence of French director Martin Provost’s latest film The Midwife is supposed to revolve around...

Hell and High Water (1954) | Blu-ray Review

Although revered as an independent maverick and celebrated for the pronounced strangeness of his 60s classics like Shock Corridor (1963) and the delightfully perverse...

Night People (1954) | Blu-ray Review

Nunnally Johnson is best remembered as a prominent screenwriter from Hollywood’s Golden Age, having toiled through the studio era from the 1930s through the...

Kill, Baby…Kill! (1966) | Review

The Little Girl Who Kills Down the Lane: Bava’s Boffo Ghost Story Heavy on Atmosphere, Light on Narrative Of all the famed giallo masters, Mario...

Song to Song | Blu-ray Review

Terrence Malick runs into his usual refrain in his latest, Song to Song, a film replete with aching, lost souls whose various interconnected narratives...

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In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse...

Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos & Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia

There is a chaotic violence at the core of...

Exclusive Trailer: Ashes to Ashes, Toronto to Oslo in Bohdanowicz’s ‘Measures for a Funeral’ (2025)

After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival...

2025 SODEC Coin for New Projects by Philippe Lesage, Annie St-Pierre & Charlotte Le Bon

Quebec’s SODEC (the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles)...
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