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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A Game of Death (1945)| Blu-ray Review

Making his move from editor (Citizen Kane, The Devil and Daniel Webster, and The Magnificent Ambersons) to director in the early 1940s, Robert Wise...

Just a Sigh | DVD Review

It’s been a long road for the slight but nevertheless worthwhile Just a Sigh from Jerome Bonnell, the French director’s English language debut which...

The Conversation: Producer Vincent Maraval

Since its inception in the late 1990s as a subsidiary of Studiocanal, before breaking off on its own in 2002, French distribution company Wild...

Life | Review

In Space No One Can See You Steal: Espinosa Imitates another Celluloid Form The vastness of space and the limitlessness of the universe are abstract,...

I, Olga Hepnarova | Review

Gray is the Cruelest Color: Kazda and Weinreb Resurrect a Murderess Unlike the hopeful social realism angle of the comparably titled Palme d’Or winning I,...

Breaking

Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third...

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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