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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Woman in Gold | Review

All that Glitters: Curtis Traps Compelling Kernel in Avalanche of Schmaltz British television alum Simon Curtis graduated to feature filmmaking in 2011 with the incredibly...

Criterion Collection: Cries and Whispers | Blu-ray Review

Criterion repackages one of its earlier Ingmar Bergman inclusions this month, restoring his brilliant, enigmatic 1972 masterpiece Cries and Whispers for Blu-ray release. Financed...

Ned Rifle | Review

Nobody’s Fool: Hartley Concludes His Grim Trilogy While it may be wholly unnecessary to see the two preceding films in the loosely knit Grim trilogy...

White God | Review

All Dogs Go To: Mundruczo’s Sad Trumpet Ballad an Allegory of Inhumanity Terminology is key to deciphering the shaggy subtext of Kornel Mundruczo’s allegorical film,...

A Wolf at the Door | Review

Suffer the Children: Coimbra’s Dark Debut is an Affair to Remember Kidnapping and abduction often make for unsettling cinematic subjects, especially when involving small children....

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