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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Free State of Jones | Review

The Newton Men: Ross Emancipates History Lesson from Obscurity At a point in time, a dramatic reenactment of a provocative but overlooked American Civil War...

The Neon Demon | Review

Death Walks on High Heels: Refn Delves Daftly into the Los Angeles Fashion Demimonde To reference John Waters’ definition of beauty, “a face should jolt,...

Right Now, Wrong Then | Review

Two in One: Sang-soo’s Latest Delight Examines Outcomes and Possibilities Prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, who debuts annual films at various festivals every year,...

Wiener-Dog | Review

Every Dachshund Has His Day: Solondz Provides Droll Despair It’s been five years since we were last graced with Todd Solondz’s particular brand of muted...

The Shallows | Review

The Shark Who Came in from the Deep: Collet-Serra’s Shark Attack Sticks to the Basics There will likely never be a shark attack film as...

Breaking

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

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...
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