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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Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #3. Derek Cianfrance’s The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans Director Derek Cianfrance // Writers: Derek Cianfrance, M.L. Stedman Derek Cianfrance surfaced to the forefront of the best new American directors with...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #4. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino // Writer: Quentin Tarantino The film that almost wasn’t due to a draft of the script being leaked in early...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #5. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant

All things documentary, foreign and American independent film are what the staff unabashedly bleeds for here at IONCINEMA.com. Film snobbery aside, we've identified twenty-five studio film offerings...

Son of a Gun | Review

Gunsmoke: Avery’s Able-bodied Debut Dulled by Familiar Tropes The less familiar you are with the dramatic crime genre, perhaps the more engaged you’ll be with...

Involuntary | Review

Cold Cuts: Östlund Examines Behavior Unawares in Astute Sophomore Feature While Ruben Östlund’s 2004 feature debut The Guitar Mongoloid first played with examinations of human...

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Black Money for White Nights | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review

Steal Big, Steal Little: Grozeva & Valchanov Deliver Just...

The Guest | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review

You’ll (Dis)Like My Mother: Mengel Mars a Celebration With his...

A Happy Family | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review

She’s Come Undone: Mack Concocts an Empathetic Chaos It’s clear...
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