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 Playroom | Review

Reviews

Nicholas Bell - February 8, 2013

Played Out: Dyer’s Sophomore Feature Overly Familiar and Underwhelming Director Julia Dyer, again teaming with screenwriter sister Gretchen, mount their first project since their successfully...

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Review

Reviews

Nicholas Bell - February 6, 2013

Relapse/Recovery: Sheen’s Demure Turn Wallows In Coppola’s Schizophrenic Film Gesture Fans of Joseph Losey’s 1966 failed experiment, Modesty Blaise, (of which there are quite a...

Magic Magic | Sundance 2013 Review

Reviews

Nicholas Bell - February 6, 2013

Identikit: Silva’s Eerie Genre Effort an Unsettling Throwback Harkening back to a genre of women and madness features that populated plenty of classic titles from...

Best of Fest: Nicholas’ Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Film Festivals

Nicholas Bell - January 31, 2013

#5. Stoker South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook makes his English language debut about a creepy dysfunctional family in a gothic old house from a screenplay...