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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Fire Will Come | Review

Fire Walk with Me: Laxe Anchors an Arsonist in Meditative Portrait If fire is the regenerative metaphor of the phoenix, the same cannot be said...

Let Him Go [Video Review]

Gone, Baby, Gone: Bezucha Returns with Poignant Crime Drama For his first film in nearly a decade, director Thomas Bezucha returns with a spirited character-driven...

Koko-di Koko-da | Review

It’s All About Love: Nyholm Returns with Absurdist Allegory on Relationships If Groundhog Day (1993), the well-liked Bill Murray title about a weatherman who is...

His House [Video Review]

Death as a House: Weekes Finds Woe in Immigration Horror It’s a trauma so innately horrific on the surface the thought of collapsing it into...

I Was at Home, But…. | Review

The Play’s the Thing: Schanelec Shines with Striking Dynamic on Artifice vs. Authenticity Words pour out of us, as the main character vocalizes in one...

Breaking

Interview: Hédi Zardi Atlas Workshop – 2026 Marrakech Film Festival

The Atlas Workshops provide artistic and professional support to...

Possible Love | Review

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch...

Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee...

Interview: Travis Knight – Wildwood

Among those that play the long game we could...
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