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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Private Property (1960) | Review

Piece of the Pie: Stevens’ Psychosexual Drama Gets Revamped The poster tagline for Leslie Stevens’ 1960 directorial debut Private Property says it all, proclaiming the...

Carnage Park | Review

Carnage Knowledge: Keating’s Halfhearted Shot at Grindhouse not a Fine Vintage For his fourth feature, indie genre director Mickey Keating attempts a vintage crime/horror mash-up...

Microbe and Gasoline | Review #2

Boys of Summer: Gondry Dials Down the Mayhem for Gentle Road Film If Michel Gondry’s latest film Microbe and Gasoline can potentially be regarded as...

Aferim! | DVD Review

Romanian auteur Radu Jude enters the ring as one of his country’s most accomplished new voices with third feature, Aferim! Its title an Ottoman...

The Brothers Grimsby | Blu-ray Review

Not even the promise of a highly touted pachyderm gang bang was enough to generate box office appeal for Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest vehicle,...

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Jeunes mères (Young Mothers) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Bonjour Tristesse: The Dardenne Bros. Explore Teenage Pregnancy In their...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’

While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Dardenne Bros.’ ‘Jeunes mères’

Winner of the Palme d'Or for 1999's Rosetta (which...
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