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.

Exclusive articles:

Darling | Review

When She Calls You Sweetheart: Keating Invokes Femme Fou with Derivative Art-house Thriller Riding the thin line between copycatting and homage, indie director Mickey Keating...

Standing Tall | Review

Jostling Juvi: Bercot’s Take Familiar Stance on the System Exploring a few too many problematic delinquency issues than it can rightly address, Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall (La Tête...

Criterion Collection: A Poem is a Naked Person | Blu-ray Review

Criterion snags documentarian Les Blanks’ heretofore lost title A Poem is a Naked Person for their collection, a portrait of singer-songwriter Leon Russell filmed...

The Red House | Blu-ray Review

Director and screenwriter Delmer Daves is perhaps best remembered today for directing the seminal film noir Dark Passage (1947), which utilized a unique first...

The Hallow | Blu-ray Review

Preceding its premiere in the Midnight program at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was incredibly positive buzz surrounding Corin Hardy’s Ireland set horror film,...

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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