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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Almost Christmas | Review

Do You Hear What I Hear?: Talbert’s Holiday Themed Dramedy Features Talented Cast in Contrived Scenario One of several connotations with the popularized subgenre of...

The Chase (1966) | Blu-ray Review

One of the seminal figures in the New Hollywood movement was Arthur Penn, whose 1967 film Bonnie & Clyde not only made cinematic icons...

The Night of the Grizzly (1966) | Blu-ray Review

A curious hybrid of family-friendly Western homesteader themes mixes uneasily with an animal rampage film in the cheesy oater, The Night of the Grizzly...

Boomerang! (1947) | Blu-ray Review

Elia Kazan remains one of the of the most notable and accomplished of American auteurs, whose post-WWII informed filmography provided the framework for fluctuating...

Criteron Collection: Pan’s Labyrinth | Blu-ray Review

A decade has passed since Guillermo Del Toro unleashed his glorious period piece Pan’s Labyrinth, a dark, magical fable set in 1944 Spain, in...

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2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...

Romería | Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After...
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