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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Review: Keep the Lights On

"Not a hundred reviews could give justice to the importance and beauty of a film like Keep the Lights On, a throwback to the way queer cinema was starting to head in the 1990’s, but perhaps hasn’t quite reached. Just as Erik recuperates a forgotten gay artist for his documentary, Ira Sachs has recuperated and documented a modern gay existence, and a realistic one, at last."

Keep the Lights On | Review

And don’t be afraid of the dark.

Review: Lay the Favorite

"Every once in a while, a great director, an auteur even, will helm such a dastardly atrocious film, that you can’t possibly comprehend how such a work could come into being. The great Stephen Frears has such a film on his impeccable resume with this latest turkey, Lay the Favorite."

Lay the Favorite | Review

Don’t Lay Any Bets On This Loser Every once in a while, a great director, an auteur even, will helm such a dastardly atrocious film,...

Lay the Favorite | Review

Don’t Lay Any Bets On This Loser.

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Hot Milk | Review

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Interview: Ariane Labed – September Says

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Interview: Jessica Palud – Being Maria

In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released...
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