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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Left Behind | Review

Growing Pains: Armstrong’s Re-hash of Christian Agenda Hardly Rapturous The end of times is here again with Left Behind, heralded by the presence of Nicolas...

Hellaware | Review

Satirize This: Bilandic’s Scruffy Send-up of NYC Art Scene Though starting off on a stronger note than where it eventually ends up, Michael M. Bilandic’s...

Cold in July | Blu-ray Review

Director Jim Mickle’s fourth feature film, Cold in July, is an adaptation of a novel by Joe R. Landsale, set in the particular, simpler...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition | Blu-Ray Review

There’s no denying the cultural magnitude of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 grindhouse classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Inspiring legions of seminal directors, as well as...

The Liberator | Review

Plowing the Sea: Arvelo’s Portrait of Famed Leader Hardly Revolutionary Arriving with all the earmarks of a truncated and incredibly abridged version of history in...

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2026 Venice: Virginia Mori, Annie Ning, Saoirse Ronan & Nathan Silver in Orizzonti Shorts

The Venice Film Festival have announced the short films...

Non Factory Girl: Greenwich Entertainment Adopts Zou Jing’s ‘A Girl Unknown’

Making more and more inroads into auteur world cinema...
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