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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DJ Ahmet | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review

All DJs, Great and Small: Unkovski’s Debut Can’t Stop the Music While its location might feel inherently unique, the happenings in Georgi M. Unkovski’s narrative...

The Things You Kill | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review

A Poison Tree: Khatami Deconstructs the Psychoses of Patriarchy For his third feature, Iranian American director Alireza Khatami formulates a powerful psychodrama unspooling through the...

I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | Review

Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship “The dictatorship’s mistakes was to torture but not kill,” former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proudly claimed...

The Substance | Review

Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s...

Pepe | Review

Cocaine Hippo: de Los Santos Arias Explores an Assassination To say Pepe, the second narrative feature from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias,...

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Black Tea | Review

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level...

Philosopher’s Zone: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Has Virginie Efira & Tao Okamoto Exchange in ‘All of the Sudden’

Finally one Paris-based project might have leap-frogged another (Our...
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