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.

Exclusive articles:

Seashore | VOD Review

The Sea Will Tell: Titillation and Vague Angst Tease Substance in Tepid Gay Tinged Drama Though there’s still a great need to tell vibrant, meaningful...

Two Step | Review

Ordinary Madness: Johnson’s Character Study Enriched by Neo-Noir Aesthetic Premiering earlier this year at the SXSW Film Festival, Alex R. Johnson’s directorial debut Two Step...

Catch Me Daddy | Review

Family Matters: Wolfe’s Unsettling Debut a Thriller with a Mean Streak Premiering in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, director Daniel...

The Gift | Review

Keep on Giving: Edgerton’s Debut a Surprisingly Adept Thriller Actor Joel Edgerton makes his feature directorial debut with The Gift, an intelligent, enjoyably entertaining thriller...

Ricki and the Flash | Review

The Flash and How To Dull It: Demme and Streep Concoct Uneven Rock Cocktail We’ve known the multifaceted Meryl Streep, amongst her many surprising and...

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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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