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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Gran Bollito | Blu-ray Review

Arguably one of the most neglected auteurs who has undeservedly fallen into obscurity is Mauro Bolognini, a director who worked throughout the 1950s and...

Collateral Beauty | Review

Terms of Amusement: Frankel’s Sentimental Platitudes Ensconce Profoundly Foolish Melodrama The folly of Will Smith is he’s a performer seemingly unable to differentiate between authentic...

Howards End | Blu-ray Review

“Are they likely people?” says one female relative to another in the opening segments of James Ivory’s Howards End, the 1992 adaptation of British...

Criterion Collection: Fellini’s Roma | Blu-ray Review

Long before there was an actual cinematic movement known as Cinema Du Look (formulated from a handful of ambitious French directors circa 1980s), the...

2016 Costa Rica Int. Film Festival: Joyas Del Cine Rica

The 2016 Costa Rica International Film Festival kicked off with an impressive retrospective for Kelly Reichardt, including her latest and potentially most acclaimed film...

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L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High...

Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

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

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’

The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’

A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was...
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