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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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Review

Filth and Wisdom: Saunders and Lumley Can’t Get Back to Where They Started From This wheel doesn’t so much as explode as it does simply...

Train to Busan | Review

Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut Heavy on Tropes Zombie contagion sweeps over South Korea while a random band of survivors struggle...

A Married Woman | Blu-ray Review

With so many famous titles from his prolific 1960s period, it isn’t hard to believe several are systematically overlooked, one of them being 1964’s...

Five Miles to Midnight | Blu-ray Review

Decidedly weird but not altogether enthralling is the 1962 title Five Miles to Midnight, a melodramatic thriller with noir elements and one of the...

The Childhood of a Leader | Review

The Children Are Watching Us: Corbet’s Chilling Directorial Debut Contemplates Familial Fascism Potent psychological complexity often feels compromised in favor of establishing easy to...

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Caravan | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

All About My Martyr: Kirchnerová’s Debut Finds the Journey...

YES | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially,...

Sentimental Value | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Life as a House: Trier Turns Broken Hearts Into...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’

Everyone took notice with his 2006 debut Reprise, but...
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