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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Inherent Vice | Review

The Vice is Right: Anderson’s Inherently Incoherent Pynchon Trip For his seventh film, auteur Paul Thomas Anderson stakes a claim as the first filmmaker to...

After the Fall | Review

Falling Down: Klein’s Debut Exploits Economic Realities for Mixed Crime Drama Exploring the ravaged remnants of the façade once referred to as the American Dream,...

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Review

Dance, Fools, Dance: Performances Elevate Seidelman’s Stagnant Adaptation Marking the fifth film collaboration between director Arthur Allan Seidelman and writer Richard Alfieri is Six Dance...

Exodus: Gods and Kings | Review

Death on the Nile: Scott’s Biblical Epic Unworthy of the Gods Arriving just in time for ritual slaughter is Ridley Scott’s update on the Moses...

Criterion Collection: Safe | Blu-Ray Review

Todd Haynes receives his first entry in the Criterion collection with a beautiful restoration of his landmark 1995 sophomore feature, Safe, the film that launched...

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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