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 Legacy | Blu-Ray Review

You may not directly recall the name of director Richard Marquand, though in many ways he’s a notable director from the 1980s thanks to...

Angst | Blu-ray Review

You’d be hard-pressed to find a film that can transcend the unpleasantness of Austrian filmmaker Gerald Kargl’s sole directorial feature, Angst. A title difficult...

Black Caesar | Blu-ray Review

Cult director Larry Cohen’s sophomore feature, Black Caesar gets a Blu-ray treatment courtesy of Olive Films. One of two bona fide Blaxploitation efforts Cohen...

The Woods | Blu-ray Review

Horror director Lucky McKee unfortunately remains one of those unknown, peripheral genre names, mostly thanks to a number of compromised or abandoned projects following...

Lisa | Blu-Ray Review

Director Gary Sherman is perhaps best remembered for his cult titles Raw Meat (1972) and Dead & Buried (1981), or maybe for his franchise...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Only the Lonely: Ulrich Seidl Travels to Dark Tourism Places with ‘Distances’

The folks art Cineuropa are giving us a major...

History Repeating Itself: Magnus von Horn Train Hops with Jeremy Strong in ‘The Passenger’

Hopefully at some point it'll lose the over-used, generic...
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