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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Rules Don’t Apply | Review

The Showgirl and the Driver: Beatty’s Romantic Reconstruction of Eccentric Entrepreneur’s Latter Days Considering his iconic contributions and sterling reputation in cinema, breaking out over...

Evolution | Review

Island of Lost Boys: Hadzihalilovic’s Triumphant Return to Enigmatic Filmmaking French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic returns to the director’s seat for the first time since 2004’s...

Bad Santa 2 | Review

Regifted Goods: Waters Takes the Reigns for Unnecessary Sequel There’s an art to vulgar comedy, requiring a sly talent for successfully presenting off color humor...

Allied | Review

Only Lovers Left Alive: Zemeckis Mounts Handsome Production atop Warbling Wartime Romance Of all the gin joints in town, he had to walk into hers....

Army of One | Blu-ray Review

As an exercise in the wrong way to formulate satire comes Larry Charles with his latest film, Army of One, a reenactment of media...

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hafsia Herzi’s ‘La Petite Dernière’ (The Little Sister)

Actress-filmmaker (she forever stole our cinephile heart for her...

Eddington | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

No Country for Smart Men: Aster Satirizes the Obvious It...

La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Que ma volonté soit faite (Her Will Be Done) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Burn Witch, Burn: Kowalski Nurses a Curse in Sinister...
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