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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Jafar Panahi’s Taxi | Review

Riding in Cars with Directors: Panahi’s Continued Cinema of Resistance Sanctioned Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s Taxi took home the 2015 Berlin Film Festival’s top prize,...

Addicted to Fresno | Review

But I’m a Sex Addict: Babbitt Returns to Dark Comedy with Mixed Results Though the film rests rather comfortably on the shoulders of its talented...

In the Room | 2015 TIFF Review

If These Walls Could Catcall: Khoo’s Sex Omnibus Fails to Tantalize Singaporean auteur Eric Khoo returns with his latest feature, In the Room, a decades...

Partisan | Review

Pledge Allegiance: Kleiman’s Intriguing Debut a Fascist Allegory Sure to draw superficial comparisons to other famed pre-teen assassin films like The Professional (1994) or Hanna...

The Martian| Review

Stranger in a Bland Land: Scott’s Toilsome Return to Space Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

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

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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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