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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City of Women | Blu-ray Review

“It’s all about women!” read the tagline for George Cukor’s classic 1939 comedy The Women but could have just as well been reapplied to...

99 River Street | Blu-ray Review

The plight of the failed boxer, and the gladiatorial viciousness of the sport itself, are themes forming an unheralded, even invisible substrata within the...

Killer Dames Box Set | Blu-ray Review

In the grand history of giallo cinema, one of the more minor figures who breezed in and out during the genre craze was Emilio...

The Fits | Review

Get in Where You Fit In: Holmer’s Impressive Allegory of Assimilation Although it may feel a bit too allegorical or stylistically esoteric for its own...

Ma Ma | Review

Soap on a Rope: Medem Returns with Malignant Cancer Drama It’s becoming harder and harder to remember the relevancy of Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem, a...

Breaking

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

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...
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