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.

Exclusive articles:

Insidious: Chapter 3 | Review

There Be Demons: Whannell Goes Back to Basics with Third Installment And so we immerse ourselves even further into the vagaries of the Further with...

Spy | Review

Spy Hard: Feig’s Generally Entertaining Espionage Parody Director Paul Feig does a James Bond send-up for his latest Melissa McCarthy headlined romp, Spy. But for...

Alias Maria | 2015 Cannes Film Festival Review

Guerillas in the Mist: Rugeles Explores the Jungles in Labored Sophomore Effort An intriguing perspective within a terrifying environment initially makes for a compelling scenario...

Criterion Collection: The Confession|Blu-ray Review

Criterion adds two more early works of auteur Costa-Gavras to the collection, rounding out his early trilogy of political thrillers headlined by Yves Montand...

Criterion Collection: The Merchant of Four Seasons |Blu-ray Review

“We’re all pigs,” remarks a character late in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 classic The Merchant of Four Seasons, on observation one could apply to...

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Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...
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