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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Two Men in Town | Blu-ray Review

Director Jose Giovanni was best known as a screenwriter for a number of important French auteurs throughout the 1960’s, having written items like Jacques...

Fatherland | Blu-ray Review

The 1980s were a quiet period for British auteur Ken Loach, at least as far as film features were concerned. Though he directed six...

Love at Large | Blu-ray Review

Writer/director Alan Rudolph is still inextricably linked to Robert Altman, his mentor and eventual producer for several of Rudolph’s own features. Having served as...

The Conversation: Best of 2015 – Top 10 Theatrical Releases

Diving into the hundreds of new theatrical releases, including large chunks of grueling, gluttonous marathons through world cinema’s greatest offerings from a variety of film...

Son of Saul | Review

Hell on Earth: Nemes’ Impressive, Unsettling Debut Plunges into the Darkness of WWII Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes makes an impressive debut with Son of Saul,...

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Interview: Hédi Zardi Atlas Workshop – 2026 Marrakech Film Festival

The Atlas Workshops provide artistic and professional support to...

Possible Love | Review

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch...

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...
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