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.

Exclusive articles:

The Whispering Star | 2016 Japan Cuts Film Festival Review

The Human Factor: Sono’s Somber Allusions to the Allegory of the Cave When one contemplates the continuously expanding filmography of Japanese auteur Sion Sono, hyperbolic...

Outlaws and Angels | Review

For a Few Hollers More: Mollner’s Retro Western a Few Cents Short on the Dollar Opening with Psalm 104:21, “They seek their meat from God,”...

The Infiltrator | Review

Undercover Blues: Furman’s By-the-Numbers Thrills Enhanced by Cranston Certain performers manage an incalculable hook into material otherwise hampered by cliché and familiarity, something accomplished with...

The Daughter of Dawn | Blu-ray Review

The story concerning the restoration of lost silent film The Daughter of Dawn (1920) nearly eclipses what amounts to as a fascinating achievement of...

My Golden Days | DVD Review

Arnaud Desplechin’s eighth feature film, My Golden Days, a loose follow-up on characters from his 1996 filmMy Sex Life…Or How I Got Into an Argument...

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