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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Salome (2013) & Wilde Salome (2011) | Review

Love’s Labours Found: Pacino’s Wilde Meditations at Long Last Find Life Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy Salome (originally written in French) has generated countless resurrections since...

A Quiet Place | Review

The Parent Trap: Krasinski Explores a World on a Wire in Tense, Derivative Monster Movie “If they hear you, they hunt you,” declares the tagline...

Tuesday Blus: Anguished Oppressors in Fleischer’s The New Centurions Richard Fleischer

While he maintained a curiously uneven track record throughout his five decades as a director, Richard Fleischer’s career was speckled with as many underrated...

Tuesday Blus: Insidious Fourtune for Robitel’s Franchise Entry

Scaring up one-hundred-and-sixty-million for its final worldwide box office take, the fourth installment of the James Wan originated franchise, Insidious: The Last Key was...

Tuesday Blus: Cold Cults in Soavi and Argento’s The Sect

In a sense, one could point to the 1991 film The Sect as the link between Jamie Lee Curtis and giallo master Dario Argento,...

Breaking

YES | Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially,...

Kontinental ’25 | Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status...

Alpha | Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Midnight, Cannes Premiere, Special Screenings, Out of Comp

Before we dive headfirst into full-on Palme d’Or predictions...
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