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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Little Men | Review

Gentrified Agreement: Sachs’ Poignant Examination of a Childhood Friendship For his sixth feature, Ira Sachs returns to Brooklyn with Little Men, a perceptive study of...

Suicide Squad | Review

Monsters, Inc.: Ayer’s DC Comic Mashup is All Bark and No Bite Try as he might, director David Ayer’s valiant efforts to counter the onslaught...

Napoli Napoli Napoli | Blu-Ray Review

In the late 2000s, fringe auteur Abel Ferrara experimented with a series of documentaries, and in-between 2008’s Chelsea on the Rocks and 2010’s Mulberry...

The Lobster | Blu-ray Review

Director Yorgos Lanthimos transplants his celebrated narrative aesthetic from the Greek Weird Wave with his English language debut, The Lobster. The highly anticipated international...

A Hologram for the King | Blu-ray Review

Director Tom Tykwer’s international co-production A Hologram for the King unfortunately failed to generate much buzz following its premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival...

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