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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The Conjuring 2 | Review

You Gotta Have Faith: Wan Advances another Franchise with Familiar Jolts After leaving behind his Insidious franchise and lending his name to the Fast...

From Afar | Review

The Space Between Us: Vigas’ Debut a Somber, Compelling Character Portrait Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas unveils a stellar debut with stark and subversive relationship drama...

Careful What You Wish For | Review

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Criterion Collection: Wim Wenders’ The Road Trilogy | Blu-ray Review

For the first time ever, Wim Wenders’ famed Road Trilogy, a major cornerstone of the New German Wave, has at last been made available...

Hail, Caesar! | Blu-ray Review

Premiering stateside just prior to opening the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival,Hail, Caesar! the Coen Bros. parody of studio era Hollywood, took home around...

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