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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Dog Eat Dog | Review

Hot in Cleveland: Schrader Returns with Gritty, Entertaining Crime Drama The dog days aren’t over, or so it would seem in director Paul Schrader’s glorious...

Trash Fire | Review

Trash Humping: Bates Deliver Unkempt Dysfunctional Family Thriller Director Richard Bates Jr. cuts a bit too deeply with third feature Trash Fire, a film which...

Loving | Review

United States of Love: Nichols Falters with Hokey Prestige Picture In 1967, the United States Supreme Court made a landmark civil rights decision with Loving...

Hacksaw Ridge | Review

Full Metal Hacksaw: Gibson Returns to the Director’s Seat for an Anti-War Film Perhaps it was only inevitable to find actor-turned-director-turned-showbiz pariah Mel Gibson tackle...

Doctor Strange | Review

Time After Time: More Snark, Less Spark in Derrickson’s Entry into the Marvelverse Marvel introduces their approximation of the mystical realm with their unleashing of...

Breaking

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...

Romería | Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After...
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