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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Grandma | Review

Citizen Lily: Weitz’s Character Study Homage to Iconic Lead Since beginning his directorial career with 1999’s American Pie, Paul Weitz has hovered in an in-between...

Sinister 2 | Review

The Reusable Bughuul: Foy Marks a Franchise for Death The only thing effectively murdered in the utterly unnecessary and awkwardly bungled sequel to Scott Derrickson’s...

Hitman: Agent 47 | Review

Hanna and Her Sisters: The Art of the Persistently Insipid Video Game Reboot A tip of the hat to 20th Century Fox as they valiantly...

The Mend | Review

Mysteries of Miseries: Magary’s Misanthropic Glance at Troubled Brothers There’s a perverse pleasure to be had watching John Magary’s directorial debut, The Mend, if mostly...

The Boy | Review

The Sad Seed: Macneill’s Portrait of Rural Malaise Flickers with Occasional Menace In the cinematic landscape of evil (or at least sociopathic), children, it’s rare...

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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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