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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Room | Review

Of One’s Own: Abrahamson Delivers Emotionally Potent Adaptation Irish director Lenny Abrahamson continues his trajectory of unpredictable cinematic platforms with his latest film, Room, an...

Experimenter | Review

Experiment This: Almereyda Revisits Classic Social Psych Progenitor American filmmaker Michael Almereyda brings to the screen a pseudo-biopic on one of the more famous social...

The Devils (1971) | 2015 Beyond Film Festival Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s Delirious, Incomparable Masterpiece Despite the pronounced pedigree of its origins, Ken Russell’s glorious 1971 film The...

The Final Girls | Review

Spoofaway Camp: Strauss-Schulson’s Playful Mash-up Takes a Tumble On You Director Todd Strauss-Schulson, whose last feature was A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)...

Victoria | Review

Sleepless Night: Schipper’s Audacious, Single Take Heist Thriller Actor turned director Sebastian Schipper makes major headway with his fourth effort behind the camera, Victoria. Premiering...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Only the Lonely: Ulrich Seidl Travels to Dark Tourism Places with ‘Distances’

The folks art Cineuropa are giving us a major...

History Repeating Itself: Magnus von Horn Train Hops with Jeremy Strong in ‘The Passenger’

Hopefully at some point it'll lose the over-used, generic...
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