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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Kill Baby, Kill | Blu-ray Review

The influential reach of Italian giallo master Mario Bava is far and wide, and a retrospective earlier this year at The Quad helped re-introduce...

The Mummy | Blu-ray Review

American cinematic drivel is becoming more of a tried and true import infecting international theater chains, as evidenced by the latest attempt of Universal’s...

mother! | Review

Portrait of the Artist: Aronofsky Thrashes Wildly with Art-house Freak Show Three years since his Biblical studio effort Noah, Darren Aronofsky is back in the...

Criterion Collection: Certain Women | Blu-ray Review

Kelly Reichardt scored her most triumphant success to date with sixth feature film, Certain Women, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and...

The Conversation: Tying Down TIFF – The Top 10 From the 2017 Edition

And so, another edition of North America’s grandest film festival ends as the 42nd revolution of TIFF fades from memory and jumpstarts the beginning...

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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