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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Neon Bull | Blu-ray Review

Premiering at the 2015 Venice Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar, Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s exceptional sophomore feature Neon Bull won the Special Jury...

The Ones Below | Blu-ray Review

Pregnancy and psychological thrills make for comfortable bedfellows in screenwriter David Farr’s (Hanna; “The Night Manager”) directorial debut, The Ones Below. Premiering at the...

Equals | Blu-ray Review

Conceptualizing the future in tangible terms tends to limit the supposed endless possibility of parameters, and this is most certainly evident in a growing...

The Nice Guys | Blu-ray Review

Comedic neo-noir is difficult to achieve, not unlike a recent trend of popular hybrids sporting humor and horror as freely interchangeable elements, resulting in...

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Blu-ray Review

Beyond some brief moments of hysterical camp fervor courtesy of a frumpy lead performance from Shelley Winters, in prime matronly hyper drive, it’s difficult...

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Julia Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’

Body horror, psychological issues, and social commentary best describe...

Alpha | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Tarik Saleh’s ‘Eagles of the Republic’

Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh has been moving up from...

Eagles of the Republic | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

One Flew Over the Coup’s Nest: Saleh Muddles Through...
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