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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The Gambler | Review

Kens and Dolls: Wyatt Revamps Toback Prose for the Plastic Age Working steadfastly against the success of Rupert Wyatt’s up-do of The Gambler, which was...

Big Eyes | Review

Soul Windows: Burton Returns to the Biopic with Flagging Interest Long judged as a director clearly intent on recycling the same motif, themes, and...

Ask Me Anything | Review

Ask and You Shall Receive: Burnett’s Adaptation Buoyed By Arresting Performances Landing somewhere on a spectrum of unraveling female adolescent prototypes that plays like one...

Witness to Murder | Blu-ray Review

Available for the first time on Blu-ray or DVD and remastered in high definition is forgotten film noir Witness to Murder, a 1954 Barbara...

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

An Expected Finale: Jackson Brings Tolkien Saga to Thankful End Upon reaching the end of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy with the third and final installment, renamed The Hobbit:...

Breaking

Non Factory Girl: Greenwich Entertainment Adopts Zou Jing’s ‘A Girl Unknown’

Making more and more inroads into auteur world cinema...

2026 TIFF: Siân Heder’s ‘Being Heumann’ Selected as TIFF Opener

We have a trio of Gala Presentation offerings to...
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