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 Untamed | Review

Reviews

Nicholas Bell - July 20, 2017

The Pleasure Principle: Escalante Makes a Monster Mash with Distinctive Social Drama The shadow of Andrzej Zulawski’s infamous erotic creature feature/divorce melodrama Possession (1981) looms...

The Midwife | Review

Reviews

Nicholas Bell - July 20, 2017

Midwife Crisis: Provost Squanders Fine Cast in Trite Melodrama The essence of French director Martin Provost’s latest film The Midwife is supposed to revolve around...

Hell and High Water (1954) | Blu-ray Review

Disc Reviews

Nicholas Bell - July 18, 2017

Although revered as an independent maverick and celebrated for the pronounced strangeness of his 60s classics like Shock Corridor (1963) and the delightfully perverse...

Night People (1954) | Blu-ray Review

Disc Reviews

Nicholas Bell - July 18, 2017

Nunnally Johnson is best remembered as a prominent screenwriter from Hollywood’s Golden Age, having toiled through the studio era from the 1930s through the...