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: David Lean Directs Noel Coward | Blu-ray Review

Before directing some of the greatest epic films ever made, David Lean’s directorial career began in the 1940’s, when he collaborated with playwright Noel...

A Little Bit of Heaven | Review

Cancer Eats More Than Just Kate Hudson’s Colon in Kassell’s Emotional Porn After her excellent 2004 feature debut The Woodsman, Nicole Kassell finally returns with...

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Review

The Empire Strikes Back: John Madden Does EmoFogey Porn With Just a Pinch of Exploitation One of many quotes from Rudyard Kipling, that famed English...

Jesus Henry Christ | Review

The H is for Horrendous: Dennis Lee Sledgehammers Black Comedy It’s hard to pin-point when exactly American independent cinema developed an unnecessary and unwarranted tendency...

Criterion Collection: Anatomy of a Murder | Blu-ray Review

Otto Preminger’s 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder still stands as one of the finest courtroom dramas ever made. An exercise in moral ambiguity...

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