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: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum | Blu-ray Review

Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1939 title The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, championed by some as the Japanese auteur’s masterwork (arguably, he had several), arrived shortly...

Tony Rome & Lady in Cement | Blu-ray Review

Many forget Frank Sinatra, one of the most iconic vocalists to date, had an equally formidable cinematic career, ranging from the late 1940s to...

Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children | Review

Let’s Do the Time Loop Again: Burton’s Back with Another Belabored Children’s Fantasy The time has long since passed when Tim Burton was able to...

Betty (1992) | Review

Betty’s Blue: Chabrol’s Compelling Character Study of Victimhood and Agency Claude Chabrol, dubbed the Alfred Hitchcock after rising out of the Nouvelle Vague, began his...

The Color of Lies (1999) | Review

The Hole Truth: Chabrol Explores What Lies Beneath the Chilly Idyll in Brittany The continually clever and constantly rueful Claude Chabrol ended his stretch of...

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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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