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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Mark of the Devil | Blu-Ray Review

The vintage nastiness of the exploitative cult classic Mark of the Devil gets a pristine revamp from Arrow Video, a favored title from a...

The Imitation Game | Blu-ray Review

Shut out at the BAFTAs, and nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Graham Moore, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation...

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies | Blu-Ray Review

Hovering just under one billion dollars in worldwide gross, the final installment of Peter Jackson’s prequel trilogy, The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies...

She’s Lost Control | Review

Body Talk: Marquardt’s Debut Treads Lightly Through Provocative Territory Sexuality, prostitution, and that obscure object of desire are all tricky matters to convey cinematically. In...

La Sapienza | Review #2

Spaces Between: Green’s Controlled, Heavily Stylized Metaphor Eugène Green is an American born filmmaker who has been steadily making foreign films over the past decade...

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