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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The French Dispatch | Review

Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...

Dune | Review

Spice Up Your Life: Villeneuve Embarks with Somber Take on the Sci-Fi Classic The journey of Dune to the big screen has been an arduous...

Needle in a Timestack | Review

Stye of the Needle: Ridley Can’t Thread Conceptual Sci-Fi Time travel is tricky, especially when trying to effectively demonstrate its parameters and ramifications in narrative...

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Review

Flesh+Fantasy: Hamaguchi Harvests Regrets in Eloquent Triptych One of Japan’s most compelling and profound contemporary auteurs is Ryusuke Hamaguchi, a purveyor of the barely contained...

Fever Dream | Review

Threadlock: Llosa Drifts into Elegant Nightmare with Faithful Adaptation For her fourth feature, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa adapts Samanta Shweblin’s enigmatic novel Fever Dream, a...

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2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Palme d’Or – Part 1

In less than two weeks, Thierry Frémaux will unveil...

YES | Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially,...

Kontinental ’25 | Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status...

Alpha | Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease...
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