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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Cruella [Video Review]

Cruella Intentions: Gillespie Recuperates Another Villainess in Perky Origin Story Those familiar with a particular period of pseudo-morbid live-action Disney productions from the 1970s and...

Seance [Video Review]

The Girlfriend Experience: Barrett Mines B-Movie Tropes in Hybrid Throwback There’s no greater hotbed of dysfunction and perversity than the homosocial staples of either the...

A Quiet Place Part II [Video Review]

Islands in the Stream: Krasinski Doesn’t Disappoint with Long Awaited Genre Sequel There’s something intrinsically inviting about the grueling survival odyssey of the Abbott family,...

Adoration | Review

Gloria, You’re Always on the Run Now: Du Welz Completes Ardennes Trilogy with Innocence Lost in Dark Fairy Tale An exercise wherein true and unfaltering...

The Retreat [Video Review]

The Hateful Straights: Mills Finds Bigots in the Backwoods in Exploitation Effort One of the many silver linings of genre filmmaking is the powerful...

Breaking

Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...
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