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.

Exclusive articles:

Nymphomaniac: Volume I | Review

The Girl Can’t Help It: Von Trier’s Indelible First Chapter a Sobering, Ruminative Examination of the Last Cinematic Frontier In today’s modern world, where cinematic...

Maladies | Review

Crazy, Stupid, Art: Carter’s Directorial Debut Less than the Sum of its Parts Multimedia artist Carter makes his directorial debut with Maladies, an intriguing sounding...

Divergent | Review

Dissatisfaction: Burger Launches the Next YA Dystopia to Unwieldy Lengths Director Neil Burger joins genre courting/sci-fi alum Andrew Niccol’s dip into the abscessed pool of...

Just a Sigh | Review

Brief Encounter: Bonnell’s Latest a Breezy, Gallic Affair With his fifth feature, Just a Sigh, (a butchered translation from what really should be The Time...

Blood Ties | Review

Blood Simple: Canet’s English Language Debut an Enjoyably Prostrate Epic For his English language debut, actor/director Guillaume Canet arrives with Blood Ties, a remake of...

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2027 Oscars: Austria Backs Hüller as ‘Rose’ in the Best Intl. Feature Film Category

Austria were in a bit of a pickle situation...

Train to Busan | Review

Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut...
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