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 Beguiled | Review

Reviews

Nicholas Bell - June 22, 2017

The Last Seduction: Coppola Eschews Subtext with High Profile Remake Claiming to be a closer adaptation to Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel than the famed 1971...

Spotlight on a Murderer | Blu-ray Review

Disc Reviews

Nicholas Bell - June 20, 2017

An influential but often overlooked originator of French surrealism would be genre stalwart Georges Franju, still best remembered for his 1960 masterpiece, Eyes without...

Life | Blu-ray Review

Disc Reviews

Nicholas Bell - June 20, 2017

Daniel Espinosa’s blatant Alien carbon copy Life may have received overwhelmingly mixed reviews, but the sixty million budget endeavor ended up taking in just...

The Criterion Collection: Ugetsu | Blu-ray Review

Disc Reviews

Nicholas Bell - June 20, 2017

A cornerstone of Japanese cinema, Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece Ugetsu at last receives an updated transfer from the Criterion collection. In the middle of...

The Criterion Collection: The Marseille Trilogy | Blu-ray Review

Disc Reviews

Nicholas Bell - June 20, 2017

Marcel Pagnol’s famed Marseille Trilogy receives a loving placement in the Criterion Collection after its theatrical US restoration release in early 2017 courtesy of...

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