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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2017 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

2017 promises to be another strong year for Sundance, hosting a bevy of highly anticipated titles in another formidable Premieres section, while its US...

Staying Vertical | Review

The Bipedal Advantage: Guiraudie Returns to Vaguely Pernicious Themes After his 2013 breakout success with Stranger By the Lake, a nod to France’s Hitchcockian forefather...

Train to Busan | Blu-ray Review

South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho scored a box office hit with his live action narrative debut Train to Busan, a zombie action film which...

Criterion Collection: Something Wild | Blu-ray Review

Love means never having to say you’re sorry, or so we were told by Ali McGraw in Arthur Hiller’s famous 1970 adaptation of the...

Criterion Collection: Fox and His Friends | Blu-ray Review

To revisit Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends in 2017, some forty years after its 1975 release, is to realize how unnervingly astute...

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Julia Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’

Body horror, psychological issues, and social commentary best describe...

Alpha | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

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

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Tarik Saleh’s ‘Eagles of the Republic’

Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh has been moving up from...

Eagles of the Republic | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

One Flew Over the Coup’s Nest: Saleh Muddles Through...
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