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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Jason Bourne | Review

Bourne Again Again: Greengrass Returns to Action Franchise with Middling Results Director Paul Greengrass returns to the Robert Ludlum action franchise he inherited from Doug...

Interview: Anne Fontaine (The Innocents)

I sat down with Anne Fontaine shortly after her latest film, The Innocents (formerly “Agnus Dei”) premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The increasingly...

Criterion Collection: Muriel, or The Time of Return | Blu-ray Review

War, in some shape, way, or form, was infused in most of the famed early works of New Wave auteur Alain Resnais, who broke...

The Invitation | Blu-ray Review

One of the best under the radar genre pieces of the past year has to be Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, the director’s fourth and...

Crimes of Passion | Blu-ray Review

“Save your soul, whore!” cries Anthony Perkins’ crackpot street preacher in the first several minutes of Ken Russell’s infamous and endlessly provocative 1984 film...

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Sentimental Value | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Life as a House: Trier Turns Broken Hearts Into...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’

Everyone took notice with his 2006 debut Reprise, but...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Oliver Hermanus’ ‘The History of Sound’

South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus might be another newbie...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’

In competition film #16 of the twenty-two offerings, and...
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