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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Mother’s Baby | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby: Moder Repeats Motherhood Horrors A palpable, instinctual fascination with the potential horrors of pregnancy are exactly why neonatal dread...

The Message (El mensaje) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Gates of Heaven: Fund Explores Creature Comforts from Beyond “We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we...

What Marielle Knows | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Best Little Secrets Are Kept: Hambalek’s Absurdly Skewers the Virtues of Honesty Honesty may indeed be the best policy and maybe the truth might...

On vous croit (We believe you) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and...

Girls on Wire | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Mad Bills to Pay: Qu Stages Miserabilist Soap Opera If Girls on Wire settles on anything clear to say it’s quite simply that crime doesn’t...

Breaking

Bugonia | Review

When Will They Ever Learn?: Lanthimos Turns to Eco-Horror Yorgos...

Hedda | Review

Party Time: Nia DaCosta Throws A Forgettable Rager If you’ve...
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