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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I Could Go On Singing | Blu-ray Review

Ronald Neame’s I Could Go On Singing has an un-calculated yet complementary finality to it since it would become the last cinematic venture for...

Criterion Collection: The Naked Island | Blu-ray Review

In the US, Japanese auteur Kaneto Shindo is best remembered for a small handful of titles, a mere fraction of his prolific output as...

Triple 9 | Blu-ray Review

Following the relative disappointment of his 2012 Western Lawless, John Hillcoat scored a pulpy comeback with heist thriller Triple 9, even though it only recouped...

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...

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Fatherland | Review

Interview: Beth de Araújo – Josephine

With the Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards nominations just...

Interview: Marion Bailey – Tender Loving Care

After one roundtable questionKate O’Flynn, journalists at the London...

Interview: Kate O’Flynn – Tender Loving Care

Slowly making her way through Mike Leigh’s filmography with...

Interview: Guy Nattiv, Carrie Coon & Lily James – The Liberation

Guy Nattiv has repeatedly explored the ways private lives...
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