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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House – Two Stories | Blu-ray

Following the success of 1980’s Friday the 13th, director Sean S. Cunningham inadvertently birthed another, less likely franchise in the mid-1980s, producing horror comedy...

The Conversation: Producer Christine Vachon

Not only a trailblazer but continual champion of queer film, producer Christine Vachon continues to be one of the most prolific risk takers in...

The Ticket | Review

To Gain the World: Fluk’s Allegorical Fairy Tale Treads Perfunctory Territory Pope Francis described materialism as ‘spiritual cancer’ in that the idolatry of earthly possessions...

Their Finest | Review

A Screen of Their Own: Scherfig Concocts Winning WWII Romantic Comedy Danish director Lone Scherfig, best known for her Dogme 95 breakout Italian for Beginners...

Aftermath | Review

No Highway in the Sky: Lester’s Inane Exploitation of Compounded Grief Director Elliott Lester takes a hard left into slipshod terrain with his latest feature,...

Breaking

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania – The Voice of Hind Rajab

When I was actively watching Kaouther Ben Hania’s devastating...

Interview: Paul Mescal – Hamnet

It overpowered critics in Telluride, slayed Toronto audiences and...

Interview: Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons – Bugonia

Unfolding like a psychological seesaw of balanced fear, delusion,...
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