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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British Film Noir Collection | DVD Review

In a novel effort to stress that film noir wasn’t a film movement specifically an output solely produced for American audiences, Kino Lorber releases...

6 Years | VOD Review

There’s Always Tomorrow…Maybe: Fidell Explores the Familiar Predicaments of the LTR Director Hannah Fidell follows her 2013 debut A Teacher with concisely minded 6 Years,...

Guidance | Review

Life Coach: Mills’ Debut a Showcase for Own Multi-talents Toronto based filmmaker Pat Mills makes his directorial debut with Guidance, a dark hearted comedy that...

Digging For Fire | Review

Dem Bones: Swanberg’s Mellow Examination of Married Life A married couple’s weekend apart turns into the sort of mildly enterprising exploration of what happens when...

Some Kind of Beautiful | Review

Some Kind of Nonsense: Vaughan’s Unintentional Antithesis of the RomCom Not long into Some Kind of Beautiful, the new film from director Tom Vaughan, a...

Breaking

Closure | Review

Seriousness Sensationalized: Marczak Uses a Father in Turmoil to...

Prince | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

All Bark No Bite: Borgia’s Doggy Domestic Never Gets...

Interview: Hédi Zardi Atlas Workshop – 2026 Marrakech Film Festival

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