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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Terror in a Texas Town (1958) | Blu-ray Review

Revered as one of the premiere B film directors from the late 1930s to 1950s, Joseph H. Lewis is known to Western and noir...

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Blu-ray Review

One of the most celebrated on-screen couples during the 1990s were Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan thanks to Nora Ephron’s beloved 1993 title Sleepless...

Déjà vu (1985) | Blu-ray Review

A French maxim denoting a particular experience of already having seen or experienced something, the term Déjà vu reached its pop saturation point long...

Dunkirk | Review

The Art of War: Nolan Wages War of the Senses in Visceral Reenactment On all accounts as noble a cinematic endeavor as it is sheer...

Kekszakallu | Review

A Man’s World: Solnicki Scores with Experimental Exercise in Ennui and Agency Standing as the most enigmatic art-house debut to achieve limited theatrical release stateside,...

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Interview: Marine Atlan – La Gravida | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

This year, the Critics' Week gifted us a feature...

Interview: Abinash Bikram Shah – Elephants in the Fog | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Making his second splash in Cannes after seeing his...

Interview: Rakan Mayasi – Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Set within a tightly knit Bedouin community in Lebanon,...
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