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:

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...

Criterion Collection: Imitation of Life (1934) | Blu-ray Review

One need only look at the marketing strategy for 1934’s Imitation of Life to see how woefully inept Hollywood was (and in many ways,...

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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