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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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...

Rabid / Dead Ringers | Blu-ray Review

Shout Factory rejuvenates two titles from David Cronenberg’s prolific vault, his 1977 horror film Rabid, which featured adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her...

Men & Chicken | Blu-ray Review

With his first directorial effort in a decade, Danish scribe Thomas Anders Jensen scores an automatic cult following with Men & Chicken, a bizarre...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Review

Beasts of Burden: Yates Falters in CGI Heavy Harry Potter Prequel After taking a break from adapting Harry Potter films (he was responsible for the...

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La Danse des Renards (Wild Foxes) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Fox on the Run: Carnoy Explores Bruised Masculinity Following the...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’

Unless we count some items he produced, Ari Aster...

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...
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