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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Equity | Review

Greed is God: Menon Crafts Terse, Uneven Femme-Centric Wall Street Noir Meera Menon follows up her 2013 road-trip comedy Farah Goes Bang with a low-fi...

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...

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