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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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Blu-ray Review

The 1970s was a particularly difficult period for nonconformist auteur Samuel Fuller, a director known for timeless film noirs (Pickup on South Street; House...

The Family Fang | Review

Sucked Dry: Bateman’s Portrait of Idiosyncratic Family Fails to Resonate Actor Jason Bateman makes his sophomore directorial outing with the high profile The Family Fang,...

Viva | Review

Blame it on Fidel: Breathnach Circles the Boiler Plate with LGBT Coming-of-Age Flick A Havana set coming-of-age tale concerning a young, gay hairdresser, Paddy Breathnach and...

The Conversation: Producer Saïd Ben Saïd

For the past sixteen years, Franco-Tunisian producer Saïd Ben Saïd has been steadfastly supporting the works of many a European maverick auteur. Beginning in...

Nina | Review

A Matter of Resistance: Mort’s Compromised Portrait of a Musical Legend She may try with a considerable, ambitious might, but Zoe Saldana does not conjure...

Breaking

Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third...

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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