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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The Boss | Review

She’s a Hustla, Baby: Falcone and McCarthy Sew Themselves a Silly Badge Melissa McCarthy arrives as a perpetually turtle-necked, foul mouthed CEO with abandonment issues...

The Sicilian (Director’s Cut) | Blu-Ray Review

Conversations on the intense and onerous auteur Michael Cimino tend to target his earlier career, particularly his iconic sophomore film The Deer Hunter (1978)...

Black Mama, White Mama (2-Disc Special Edition) | Blu-Ray Review

Arrow Video continues its revitalization of Pam Grier’s iconic Blaxploitation period with 1973’s Black Mama, White Mama, arguably the star’s breakout vehicle which would...

Confession of a Child of the Century | Blu-Ray Review

In 2012, French director Sylvie Verheyde mounted an ambitious, English language adaptation of Alfred de Musset’s controversial 1836 autobiographical novel Confession of a Child...

The Boost | Blu-Ray Review

Greed is not so good for the hustling couple at the center of The Boost, Harold Becker’s late 80s portrait of excess, addiction and...

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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