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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Extraterrestrial | Review

Perhaps not as extra as it thinks it is.

Livid | Review

It’s more than a feeling.

Review: You’re Next

"While the absence of misogynist undertones makes this an extremely pleasurable horror crowd pleaser, the predilection for cheap laughs lightens the thrills to such an extent that it flies past black comedy into parody during key sequences."

You’re Next | Review

A fun if altogether trivial entry in home invasion horror.

Review: Alois Nebel

"sure to draw comparisons to Ari Folman’s 2008 Waltz With Bashir for its style, but in fact it feels more like a nightmarish noir, one from which the present is most certainly imprisoned and informed by the past, and one most certainly evoking classic Czech films, a la Jiri Menzel."

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