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: La poison (1951) | Blu-ray Review

Groucho Marx once drolly remarked, “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?” Such is the state of the...

The Love of a Woman | Blu-ray Review

Director Jean Gremillon belongs to a select group of WWII era auteurs who were highly revered during their prolific periods (which included the duress...

The Wound | Review

Go Tell It on the Mountain: Trengove Recruits Nakhane Toure for Defiant, Profound Debut South African director John Trengove tackles the compelling subject of black...

Criterion Collection: Stalker | Blu-ray Review

Mystical, existential journeys appear in cinematic form every so often, sometimes challenging our understandings of the world around us as well as the social...

After the Storm | Blu-ray Review

One of this year’s overlooked gems, Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After the Storm received a solemn theatrical release in March of 2017 courtesy of...

Breaking

Primetime | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Catcher in the Sty: Oppenheim Skewers Hack Journalist It’s...

Un détour par Diane | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Even Cowgirls Gets the Clues: Sirot/Balboni Rewrite the Past...in...

Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

How Awful About Allen: Tsukamoto Continues Charting Casualties of...

The City of the Living | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Autopsy Audit: Gabbriellini Examines the Choices Before the Mistakes Those...
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