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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Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo | Review

The Night is Young: Ducastel & Martineau’s Procedural Queer Romance For their seventh theatrical feature, Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (also known for its more...

Criterion Collection: Black Girl | Blu-ray Review

To speak of African cinema, one must begin with a discussion of Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese auteur credited as the father of African film....

No Highway in the Sky | Review

German import Henry Koster, like many of Hollywood’s studio directors, is not a name many remember despite having been responsible for a quite a...

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,...

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Interview: Benjamín Naishtat & Esteban Bigliardi – Glaxo

World premiering at the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival,...

2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: New Projects by Sofia Alaoui, Yasmine Benkiran & Jessy Moussallem at the Atlas Workshops

Moroccan filmmakers Meryem Benm’barek, Sofia Alaoui and Yasmine Benkiran...

Club Kid | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

La bola negra | Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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