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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Amnesiac | Review

Before I Go to Steal: Polish’s Familiar, Bare Bones Genre Trick It isn’t long after the film’s opening car crash sequence that the essence of...

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Review

Say Uncle: Ritchie Continues String of Studio Pastiche In a continuation of our culture’s insistence on plumbing the depths of past artifacts from the annals...

Big Sky | Review

Wide Open Spaces: Grau’s Arid English Language Debut Misses the Mark For his long awaited follow-up to his handsomely unsettling 2010 debut We Are What...

Prince | Review

It Takes a Muscle: De Jong’s Debut a Vibrant Entry in Familiar Genre So perhaps there is a room for a bit of inventiveness in...

One & Two | Review

One is the Loneliest Number: Palermo Exercises Tone Over Content Playing like the tangential origin story you’d expect to see from some rurally grown mutant...

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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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