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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The Killer | Review

Assassin’s Creed: Fincher Sculpts More Murder Into Art There’s simply no room for error in some professions, chief among them the business of expert assassins,...

Four Daughters (Les filles d’Olfa) | Review

Leave Them to Heaven: Ben Hania Experiments with Form in Anguishing Roleplay For her sixth feature, Four Daughters, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania takes a...

Priscilla | Review

La Belle Captive: Coppola Pays Homage to America’s Archetypal Child-Bride Priscilla Beaulieu Presley published her memoir Elvis & Me in 1985, which spawned a 1988...

Killers of the Flower Moon | Review

The Moon in the Gutter: Scorsese Tackles the Osage Nation Murders Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated adaption of David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction publication Killers of the...

Anatomy of a Fall | Review

Witness for the Prosecution: Triet Beguiles with Knotty Crime Procedural Justine Triet reunites with several of her Sibyl (2019) collaborators on her best film to...

Breaking

La bola negra | Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...

A Long Winter | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Gentle Thaw: Haigh’s Measured Drama is Glacial but...

Animol | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

Mismanaged Masculinity: Walters’ Gritty Debut Lacks Impactful Style Over...

Artificial | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

The End of The World as we Know it:...
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