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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The Substance | Review

Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s...

Pepe | Review

Cocaine Hippo: de Los Santos Arias Explores an Assassination To say Pepe, the second narrative feature from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias,...

Nosferatu (2024) | Review

Basic Instincts: Eggers Taps Into the Bloodlust with Vampy Remake It would seem there’s no one more fitting than Robert Eggers to mount a remake...

Vermiglio | Review

Baby Machines: Delpero Designs Tapestry of Women’s Miseries During WWII Italy Despite the associations suggested by its title, Maura Delpero’s sophomore film Vermiglio is a...

Babygirl | Review

Fuck Like No One’s Watching: Reijn Delivers Prudent & Provocative Sexual Odyssey “There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had...

Breaking

2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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