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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Criterion Collection: Imitation of Life (1934) | Blu-ray Review

One need only look at the marketing strategy for 1934’s Imitation of Life to see how woefully inept Hollywood was (and in many ways,...

Asteroid City | Review

The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...

Nobody’s Hero (Viens je t’emmène) | Review

We Don’t Need Another Hero: Guiraudie Gets Kooky in Political Comedy of Errors Alain Guiraudie migrates from rural perversity to urban calamity in the comically...

Scarlet (L’Envol) | Review

Come Sail Away: Marcello Runs Aground in Muddled Adaptation Pietro Marcello returns to literature for inspiration in his third narrative feature (and French language debut),...

Past Lives | Review

Tell Me That You Love Me, Nora Moon: Song Explores Destiny and Longing in Potent Debut Romance cut short before it reaches full bloom is...

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