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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Two Newly Restored Films by Philippe de Broca | Blu-ray Review

After restoring and releasing director Philippe de Broca’s classic Jean-Paul Belmondo capers That Man from Rio (1964) and its first sequel Up To His...

Criterion Collection: The Immortal Story | Blu-ray Review

In retrospect, The Immortal Story (1968) is a fitting capstone to Orson Welles’ illustrious yet highly compromised directorial career, a filmography lodged beneath the...

Criterion Collection: Woman in the Dunes | Blu-ray Review

Arguably one of the most enigmatic figures associated with the loosely defined Japanese New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s is Hiroshi Teshigahara, who...

Neon Bull | Blu-ray Review

Premiering at the 2015 Venice Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar, Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s exceptional sophomore feature Neon Bull won the Special Jury...

The Ones Below | Blu-ray Review

Pregnancy and psychological thrills make for comfortable bedfellows in screenwriter David Farr’s (Hanna; “The Night Manager”) directorial debut, The Ones Below. Premiering at the...

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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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