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 Hunting Party (1971) | Blu-ray Review

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Nicholas Bell - July 25, 2017

A film as brutal as it is unapologetic in its abject misogyny, one would almost expect 1971’s The Hunting Party to be the work...

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

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Nicholas Bell - July 25, 2017

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

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Nicholas Bell - July 25, 2017

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

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Nicholas Bell - July 25, 2017

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

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Nicholas Bell - July 21, 2017

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...

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TheyDream | Review

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Film Festivals November 8, 2026 0

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.