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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Creepshow 2 | Blu-ray Review

Fans of Stephen King, George A. Romero, horror anthology cinema and the texture of 1980s genre are familiar with 1982’s Creepshow, a riff on E.C....

Toni Erdmann | Review

Tony Toni Tone: Maren Ade Returns with Profound Portrait of Estranged Family Members Comedic films coming out of Germany, at least those nabbing international acclaim...

A Monster Calls | Review

Cover Up Love’s Alibi: Bayona Delivers Sensitively Portrait of Childhood Grief Rounding out a loosely themed trilogy on traumatic motherhood, director J.A. Bayona, once protégé...

Passengers | Review

In Space, No One Can Hear You Snore: Tyldum Instills Insistently Dull Throb of Boredom in Sci-Fi Romance Where are they going and where have...

Criterion Collection: The Exterminating Angel | Blu-ray Review

It might be difficult to fathom in contemporary cultural climates (although with varying degrees of ideological permissiveness) just how incendiary a cinematic figure Spanish...

Breaking

L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High...

Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

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

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’

The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’

A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was...
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