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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We Are the Flesh | Review

Live Flesh: Minter’s Perverts the Shadows in the Cave with Delirious Debut Director Emiliano Rocha Minter (who was the still photographer on Gerardo Naranjo’s 2011...

The Bye Bye Man | Review

Baby Bye Bye Bye…Bye Bye: Title’s Derivative Boogeyman Can’t Quite Turn Up the Terror “Don’t think it, don’t say it,” may be the ironic takeaway...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #1. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 Director: Denis Villeneuve Writers: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green At this time last year, Denis Villeneuve was at the top of our most anticipated Studio...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #2. Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman

The Snowman Director: Tomas Alfredson Writer: Hossein Amini, Matthew Michael Carnhan Swedish auteur Tomas Alfredson became immediately of note following his superb vampire film Let the Right...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #3. Darren Aronofsky’s Mother

Mother Director: Darren Aronofsky Writer: Darren Aronofsky We’re excited to see this for several reasons, primarily for Darren Aronofsky’s return to a smaller scale, psychological drama palette...

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No Salgas (Don’t Come Out) | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

It Doesn’t Follow: Linares Villegas’ Queer Horror Forgets the...

The Loneliest Man in Town | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Perfect Blue: Covi & Frimmel Marinate in Memories “Everything changing...

17 | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

This Makes Two of Us: Mitić Explores Binding Connection...

Home Stories | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Trobisch Mines Banality in...
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