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 Crimson Kimono (1959) | Blu-ray Review

Samuel Fuller finished out the 1950s with the underappreciated noir The Crimson Kimono, a film which perhaps spins its wheels on an even bigger...

The Circle | Blu-ray Review

Indie darling James Ponsoldt experienced his first major hiccup with a swipe at the mainstream with tech thriller The Circle. Despite starring Harry Potter...

The Lovers | Blu-ray Review

A classy, complex affair, Azazel Jacobs scores his greatest achievement to date with The Lovers, taking a break from the adolescent, man-child ennui which...

The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were Not Named

With Locarno and Venice’s recently announced competition line-ups, the last stand as far as 2017 festival circuit competition now sits with the soon to...

Menashe | Review

Not Without My Son: Weinstein Crafts Tender, Orthodox Familial Drama Graduating from documentary filmmaking to narrative cinema with Menashe, director Joshua Z. Weinstein examines universal...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)

Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential...

Renoir | Review

Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait Going in...

The Wizard of the Kremlin | Review

The Russians Are Killing the Russians Are Killing: Assayas...
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