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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Blood Ties | Review

Blood Simple: Canet’s English Language Debut an Enjoyably Prostrate Epic For his English language debut, actor/director Guillaume Canet arrives with Blood Ties, a remake of...

Criterion Collection: The Hidden Fortress | Blu-ray Review

Criterion re-releases Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 adventure The Hidden Fortress for a ravishing blu-ray update this month, following hot on the heels of a similar...

Cheap Thrills | Review

Foolish Games: Katz’s Debut Collapses Under Excessive Shock Value There’s certainly a palpable amount of perverse thrill checkered throughout E.L. Katz’s directorial debut, Cheap Thrills,...

A Birder’s Guide to Everything | Review

Bird is the Word: Meyer’s Debut a Well Meaning But Slight Observation Bird watching seems to be something of a recent cinematic inspiration, though has...

Rob the Mob | Review

Dog Eat Dog: De Felitta’s Entertaining Take of a Take After the success of his 2009 indie feature, City Island, Raymond De Felitta turns to...

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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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