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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Burn, Witch, Burn | Blu-ray Review

The 1962 cult item Burn, Witch, Burn finally gets a Blu-ray transfer courtesy of Kino Lorber. Perhaps relegated to obscurity due to its unavailability...

Blood Punch | Review

Blood of Your Blood: Paxson’s Comedy Horror Debut Lacks Bite Unspooling with all the finesse of a drunken yet trenchant teenager’s expletive laden ranting at...

Dirty Weekend | Review

Afternoon Delight: Enjoyable, Downplayed Provocation from Labute Walking into a film called Dirty Weekend knowing it’s directed by Neil Labute, an author known for his...

Coming Home | Review

Things Not Forgotten: Zhimou Returns to Period Tragedy with Middling Results Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou, known recently for elaborate adventure films like House of Flying Daggers...

Before We Go | Review

Here We Go Again: Evans’ Nondescript Venture a Familiar Recipe of Whirlwind Romance Love is not a many splendored thing in actor Chris Evans’ directorial...

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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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