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: Le Amiche | Blu-ray Review

Many forget Michelangelo Antonioni had been directing films for over a decade by the time 1960’s L’avventura was booed at Cannes, eventually solidifying his...

The Films of Maurice Pialat, Volume 2 – Under the Sun of Satan | Blu-ray Review

In their continued remastering of Maurice Pialat's works, Cohen Media Group unleashes Volume 2 as one solo title, his 1987 Palme d’Or winner Under...

Gold | Blu-ray Review

Fans of Fritz Lang’s eternally magnificent sci-fi epic Metropolis (1927) should find considerable enjoyment in the Austrian Karl Hartl’s overlooked 1934 talkie, Gold. A...

Symptoms | Blu-ray Review

A title which deserves to tag along in conversations pertaining to Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) or Robert Altman’s Images (1972) is the 1974...

Tricked | DVD Review

As the world awaits the release of his first actual feature in a decade, the sensational Cannes premiered Elle, audiences can ponder Paul Verhoeven's...

Breaking

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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