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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Comes a Horseman | Blu-ray Review

Of the noted revisionist westerns from the New American Cinema of the 1970s, one of the most neglected is Alan J. Pakula’s 1978 title...

The Handmaiden | DVD Review

Although it may have gone home empty handed following its premiere in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook’s latest sumptuous melodrama,...

The Marseille Trilogy | Review

In 2017’s first major (and highly impressive) restoration, Janus films breathes new life into novelist/playwright/director Marcel Pagnol’s indelible Marseille Trilogy, a triptych of films...

Newness | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review

Never Gonna Fall for Modern Love: Doremus Deftly Navigates the Hurtles of Millennial Romance Acute technological advancement has proffered up new, albeit problematic conceptions as...

Where is Kyra? | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review

Identification of a Woman: Dosunmu’s Exacting Arthouse Drama of Suffocation and Alienation Nigerian born director Andrew Dosunmu branches out with an unexpectedly somber portrait of...

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No Salgas (Don’t Come Out) | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

It Doesn’t Follow: Linares Villegas’ Queer Horror Forgets the...

The Loneliest Man in Town | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Perfect Blue: Covi & Frimmel Marinate in Memories “Everything changing...

17 | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

This Makes Two of Us: Mitić Explores Binding Connection...

Home Stories | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Trobisch Mines Banality in...
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