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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Anora | Review

Fools Russia In: Baker’s Bangin’ Screwball Comedy At this point in his career, filmmaker Sean Baker seems to have covered all the major facets of...

The Apprentice | Review

The Devil and Donald Trump: Abbasi Reconstructs the Rise of a Crony Capitalist Among the many wise observations written by nineteenth century Englishman Lord Acton,...

Daaaaaali! | Review

Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive Biopic It seems surrealism’s pioneer Salvador Dali is experiencing something of a culturally concentric resurgence as...

Joker: Folie à Deux | Review

Joke’s On Us: Phillips Composes an Empty, Boring Spectacle Kudos to Todd Phillips for forcing US audiences to be confronted with the intriguing subtitle...

The Universal Theory (Die Theorie Von Allem) | Review

Multiverse of Sadness: Kroger Captivates with Cryptic Cold War Sci-Fi Exploit Although it will invariably be confused with the 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic, Timm Kröger’s...

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Artificial | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

The End of The World as we Know it:...

Ray Gunn | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

An Open and Shut Case: Bird’s Passion Project Feels...

Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Heavy Toll: Shirai’s Artful Take on the Body...

Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...
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