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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Criterion Collection: Lone Wolf & Cub | Blu-ray Review

Criterion tackles the short-lived but prolific Lone Wolf & Cub series, a collection of six titles made between 1972 and 1973 about a traveling...

Don’t Breathe | Blu-ray Review

Sony’s Screen Gems scored a bona fide box office hit with Fede Alvarez’s home invasion thriller, Don’t Breathe. Opening in late August of 2016 following...

Cosmos | Blu-ray Review

Kino Lorber announced US distribution rights to Polish auteur Andrzej Zulwaski’s Cosmos shortly before news broke of the filmmaker’s death following a struggle with...

Rules Don’t Apply | Review

The Showgirl and the Driver: Beatty’s Romantic Reconstruction of Eccentric Entrepreneur’s Latter Days Considering his iconic contributions and sterling reputation in cinema, breaking out over...

Evolution | Review

Island of Lost Boys: Hadzihalilovic’s Triumphant Return to Enigmatic Filmmaking French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic returns to the director’s seat for the first time since 2004’s...

Breaking

Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Óliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’

When he was selected for the prestigious competition section...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Dominik Moll’s ‘Dossier 137’

Known for a filmography heavy into psychological thriller portraits...

Sirat | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone “The Zone...
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