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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Okja | Review

That’ll Do, Pig: Joon-ho’s Latest Creature Feature Gets Stuck on Itself Following 2014’s post-apocalyptic microcosm Snowpiercer, South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho returns to familiar territory...

The Beguiled | Review

The Last Seduction: Coppola Eschews Subtext with High Profile Remake Claiming to be a closer adaptation to Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel than the famed 1971...

Spotlight on a Murderer | Blu-ray Review

An influential but often overlooked originator of French surrealism would be genre stalwart Georges Franju, still best remembered for his 1960 masterpiece, Eyes without...

Life | Blu-ray Review

Daniel Espinosa’s blatant Alien carbon copy Life may have received overwhelmingly mixed reviews, but the sixty million budget endeavor ended up taking in just...

The Criterion Collection: Ugetsu | Blu-ray Review

A cornerstone of Japanese cinema, Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece Ugetsu at last receives an updated transfer from the Criterion collection. In the middle of...

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Look Back | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Broken Heart Art: Kore-eda Builds Bittersweet Elegy to Friendship Art...

London | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Magnificent Obsession: Di Marco & Picoli Patrol the Poison...

Agata the Writer | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Blindness of Strangers: Dorabialski Stings the Storyteller “In the...

Woman Unknown | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Penile Code: el-Toukhy Explores the Gendered Paradox of...
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