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: 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."

Review: Killer Elite

"While Killer Elite does sport some decent chase scenes and meticulous action sequences, it’s resoundingly poorly conceived in every other aspect, most notably, the terrible screenplay. Jason Statham is not a strong performer, but is obviously good in action sequences. He’s saddled here with playing the assassin with a heart of gold. Killing obviously torments him, but since he’s such a good killing machine, he will never get away from “the life,” his loved ones always used against him to kill the enemies of many a nefarious figure the world over."

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Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia

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2025 Gothams: Studio-Backed ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes on True Indies; Lands Six Noms

In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse...

Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos & Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia

There is a chaotic violence at the core of...
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