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.

Exclusive articles:

Walking with the Enemy | Review

Walk to Remember: Schmidt’s Debut Sincere and Gawky Director Mark Schmidt attempts to recount an obscure chronicle of WWII heroism to generally awkward effect, though,...

Criterion Collection: Master of the House | Blu-ray Review

While he’ll always be best known for his 1928 silent masterpiece, The Passion of Joan Arc (or for his atmospheric 1932 horror film, Vampyr),...

The Five Obstructions | DVD Review

Now over a decade since its 2003 release, Kino Lorber is releasing the Lars Von Trier and Jorgen Leth experiment/documentary The Five Obstructions in...

The German Doctor | Review

A Nazi At My Table: Puenzo’s Latest an Eerie Reimagining Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo once again adapts one of her own novels for her latest...

The Machine | Review

Imitation of Life: James’ Sci-Fi Thriller Plumbs Dark Recesses of A.I. While its ingenious ideas are sometimes marred by obvious budgetary limitations, director Caradog W....

Breaking

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...
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