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.

Exclusive articles:

A Different Man | Review

The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value Those familiar with his 2018 sophomore film Chained for Life will likely notate director...

Hoard | Review

M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut “Time heals all old pain, while it creates new...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Review

Juice Cocktail: Burton Revamps His First Demon There’s no way to reproduce the imaginative awe of Tim Burton’s 1988 idiosyncratic goth YA classic Beetlejuice. Or,...

Stranger Eyes | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

The Interest of Distance: Yeo Discovers the Masochistic Pleasures of a Surveillance State “Strange feeling that someone is looking at me. I am clear, then...

Sicilian Letters (Iddu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Letters to Daddy: Grassadonia & Piazza Continue Their Cosa Nostra Sagas Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza reimagine the circumstances surrounding yet another mafioso...

Breaking

Love (Kjærlighet) | Review

Ain’t Nothin’ But Sex Misspelled: Haugerud Continues Quiet, Earnest...

Sister Midnight | Review

Crazy On You: Kandhari’s Strange Fantasy of Madness It’s been...

The Damned | Review

The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission For...

Exclusive Clip: It’s Chill Vibes (for Now) in Pedro Pinho’s ‘I Only Rest In The Storm’

After premiering The Nothing Factory in the Directors' Fortnight...
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