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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10 Cloverfield Lane | Review

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street: Trachtenberg’s Debut Promises a Franchise Good things can come from found footage, at least evidenced by 10 Cloverfield...

Road Games | Review

Hitchin’ a Ride: Pastoll’s Debut an Assortment of Tropes No, it’s not a remake of the 1981 Richard Franklin thriller starring Stacy Keach and Jamie...

Winter Song | 2016 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Review

Off With Head: Iosseliani Returns with Breezy Cluster of Vignettes Fans of Georgian auteur Otar Iosseliani will be delighted to find the octogenarian in top...

The Challenge | Blu-ray Review

John Frankenheimer ended a three year hiatus following his 1979 environmental horror/creature feature Prophecy with a commendable martial-arts effort, The Challenge (1982). Starring Scott...

Criterion Collection: Paris Belongs to Us | Blu-ray Review

For the first time in the US, Jacques Rivette’s 1961 directorial debut, Paris Belongs to Us is available thanks to an accomplished new restoration...

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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