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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Village of the Damned [Collector’s Edition] | Blu-ray Review

Without a doubt, director John Carpenter has left an ineradicable imprint in our cinematic subconscious, playing a hand in the creation of several major...

Cowboy | Blu-ray Review

Director Delmer Daves contributed several exemplary Westerns during the 1950s, including Broken Arrow (1950), Jubal (1956) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957), which was remade...

Green Room | Review

Music Lets the People Come Together: Saulnier’s Latest an Enjoyably Intense Thriller Director Jeremy Saulnier follows the promise of his 2013 breakout thriller Blue Ruin,...

The Conversation: Producer Paulo Branco

One of the most prolific, contemporary European art-house producers has to be Paulo Branco, who has been fostering considerable auteur driven fare since 1975,...

One More Time | Review

Begin Again: Edwards’ Satisfying Sophomore Film Utilizes Walken Thanks to the overwhelming trend of quirk, cliché, or contrivance evident in most American indie offerings (whether...

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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