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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Collective | Review

The Fire Next Time: Nanau Finds Homegrown Corruption in Scandalous Expose The importance of actual investigation journalism is presented in all its full-blown glory with...

Run [Video Review]

Dial M for Munchausen: Chaganty Beams the Gaslight in Gratifying Sophomore Film The sanctity of motherhood becomes a questionable axiomatic in Run, the sophomore film...

Happiest Season [Video Review]

Harper’s Bizarre: DuVall Reinvents the Queerness of Holiday Traditions Across a wide variety of genres and narratives, going home for the holidays, and the intended...

Echo Boomers | Review

Millennium Albatross: Savoy Skirts Surfaces in Glossy Essay on Ills of Capitalism If you’re looking for an honest portrayal of the widely accepted generational rift...

Wolfwalkers | Review

The Call of the Wild: Moore Crafts Exceptional Animated Odyssey in Third Outing Another example of how rich cultural subtexts can be reformatted for profound...

Breaking

Interview: Producer Tristan Scott-Behrends – Bunnylovr (Work in Progress)

In what seems to be an exploration of duality,...

Interview: Gabriel Mascaro – The Blue Trail (O Último Azul)

We have long admired the cinema of Brazilian filmmaker...
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