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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Zipper | Review

The Ballad of Franks and Beans: Stephens’ Dips Toes and Other Bits into Political Scandal It is still very much a man’s world, or so...

The Second Mother | Review

An Other Mother: Muylaert Scores International Breakout with Class Conscious Character Study Brazilian director Anna Muylaert gets her first crack at international renown with her...

Turbo Kid | Review

Kid Dangerous: Trio of Directors Craft Endearing 80’s Retro Flick Operating comfortably within the lines of the well-tread grooves of genre paths explored before than...

Queen of Earth | Review

Earth Below Us: Perry’s Esoteric Puzzle of Women and Madness What a delight to see director Alex Ross Perry continuing his delightful examinations of unlikeable...

Z for Zachariah | Review

This is the End: Zobel’s Post-Apocalyptic Love Triangle Following the success of his galvanizingly uncomfortable 2012 film Compliance, director Craig Zobel teases his way into...

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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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