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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Review: Twixt

"At first an art house gallery of moody tone and cheeky laughs, Coppola’s latest flick quickly peters out to a tired exercise of frills and nothing more. Instead of the exploration of an artist’s pain over the loss of a child, the film becomes an accomplishment in apathy."

Review: Leave it on the Floor

"...certainly sports a pulsing rhythm in some of its excellent musical numbers, it unfortunately exhibits a distracting amount of low budget hallmarks that weigh it down as a run-of-the-mill niche picture."

Twixt | Review

Keep on, keep on, keep on moving away from Twixt

Leave it on the Floor | Review

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Review: The Moth Diaries

"Whereas the female boarding school setting was once a hotbed of repression, latent lesbian tendencies, hysteria prone young ladies and fibromyalgia suffering matrons, it has now become a formula for excessive camp and unintentional laughs. Harron’s latest is only a representative example of all the reasons why this genre tends to be revamped in all the wrong ways."

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Timestamp | Review

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Interview: Siyou Tan – Amoeba (2025)

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