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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Dark Places | Review

Grim Girl: Pacquet-Brenner’s Adaptation Brandishes Relentlessly Contrived Twists “I have a meanness in me,” warns the omniscient narrator of Dark Places, as voiced by a...

Cop Car | Review

Riding in Cars with Cops: Watts’ Thriller Offers Low Yield Excitement Jon Watts continues in the B-grade vein showcased in his 2014 Eli Roth starring...

Love Unto Death/Life is a Bed of Roses | Blu-ray Review

Cohen Media Group presents a double feature of two mid-period films from French auteur Alain Resnais, both significant titles overlooked on a resume of...

Big House, U.S.A. | Blu-ray Review

Famed producer Howard W. Koch directed a dozen or so motion pictures himself over the course of an illustrious career. None of his own...

He Ran All the Way | Blu-ray Review

A prototype of what would come to be familiarly known as the home invasion thriller, 1951's He Ran All the Way is also an important...

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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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