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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Return to Dust | Review

The Good Earth: Ruijun Crafts Poignant Portrait of Transformative Love Director Li Ruijun returns to familiar themes in his sixth feature, Return to Dust, a...

The Beanie Bubble [Video Review]

Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Lunder Executive Producers: Zach Galifianakis, Douglas S. Jones Directors: Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash, Jr. Writer: Kristin Gore. Director of Photography: Steven...

Final Cut (Coupez!) | Review

Primetime Cut: Hazanavicius Returns to Absurdity with Overdone Zombie Remake Michel Hazanavicius has certainly established his affection for the nonsensical, making a name for himself...

Afire | Review

Pleasure to Burn: Petzold Stokes the Flames in Diffident Drama A fragile male ego finds itself dismantled in Afire (Roter Himmel), the second chapter...

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Review

Dead Again: McQuarrie Cruises Into the Eye of AI For his seventh revolution around the sun as the indefatigable IMF agent Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise...

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