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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The Fundamentals of Caring | Review

Careworn Crucibles: Burnett’s Clichés Prove Reading is Fundamental Writer and producer Rob Burnett, who has a healthy television resume with contributions such as “Ed” and...

Swiss Army Man | Review

Pretend That We’re Dead: Or - Two Dans, a Dano, and a Dead Body What is there to be said about a dramatic comedy built...

La Chienne | Criterion Blu-ray Review

Popular discussions of Jean Renoir tend to highlight his most renowned titles from particular periods of his career, though his greatest contributions and considerable...

Knight of Cups | Blu-ray Review

The term ‘masterpiece’ has been bandied about too often and for too long to rightly mean anything anymore, and yet, should such terminology actually...

Rollercoaster | Blu-ray Review

How curious it feels to watch the 1977 dramatic thriller Rollercoaster in today’s contemporary climate of terrorized public places, where mass gatherings have increasingly...

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Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

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...
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