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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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,...

2X Eleanor Parker | DVD Review

Though it’s generally an assumed reference to silent film star Lon Chaney when his nickname “the man of a thousand faces” is uttered, the...

The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition

Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....

Breaking

Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee...

Interview: Travis Knight – Wildwood

Among those that play the long game we could...

Interview: Peyton Elizabeth Lee – Wildwood

A half dozen years ago Peyton Elizabeth Lee moved...

Interview: Jacob Tremblay, Brad Schiff, Rachelle Lambden & Tom Carey – Wildwood

Among the press and public activities at this year's...
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