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IONCINEMA.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/5
Salvation (2026) Nicholas Bell The film’s final moments are indeed effectively shocking, but Salvation isn’t nearly as upsetting or propulsive as it could be.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Blood Countess (2026) Nicholas Bell There might not be a lot of belly laughs, but there are moments of wicked amusement courtesy of its little love bites.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Home Stories (2026) Nicholas Bell Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way... and sometimes those unhappy ways are boring. Such is the case with Home Stories.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wolfram (2025) Nicholas Bell Wolfram utilizes old school parameters while also recuperating erased perspectives, and builds a strong emotional investment with its protagonists.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Iván & Hadoum (2026) Nicholas Bell Iván & Hadoum also feels subversively anarchic in its representation of dimensional characterization, reflecting how being trans is merely one element of an identity instead of the eclipsing factor defining every human interaction.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
I Understand Your Displeasure (2026) Nicholas Bell Friedrich’s narrative contends there is potential for hopefulness – but it requires a collective rejection of a poisonous but normalized status quo.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Queen at Sea (2026) Nicholas Bell Hammer remains fascinated with the ripple effects between lives connected to a specific event, and the heart of the matter here is a provocative one.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Nina Roza (2026) Nicholas Bell Questions are posed, but potentially undesirable responses are not pondered.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dao (2026) Nicholas Bell While the film lives up to the definition of its title, the flow does not always feel cohesive, and is sometimes alienating.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Nightborn (2026) Nicholas Bell Settling into a familiar groove, it’s a film wherein the idiosyncratic wavelength’s success depends solely on the increasingly untethered lead performance from Seidi Haarla, who certainly throws herself admirably into full tilt weird.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Rosebush Pruning (2026) Nicholas Bell If there’s any need to make another film about despicable, beautiful, filthy rich monsters, at least decide what, if anything, might be of interest to say. If families are rose bushes needing pruning, then so are scripts.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
At the Sea (2026) Nicholas Bell While Amy Adams turns in an expectedly nuanced performance, it feels a bit for nought, surrounded as she is by a labored narrative.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rose (2026) Nicholas Bell Hüller is quite exceptional as the disfigured human grimly determined to succeed, sacrificing pleasure and comfort for control.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) Nicholas Bell It’s a film of impressions, moulding the sometimes cliched struggles of artistic ambition and turning broken hearts into art. In the end, you really will dig Bill Evans if you don’t already.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Yellow Letters (2026) Nicholas Bell What really bogs down Yellow Letters is a tonal repetitiveness which feels unrelenting.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
In A Whisper (2026) Nicholas Bell Eya Bouterra’s performance deftly centers the film.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
No Good Men (2026) Nicholas Bell Sadat sets the scene with details which could easily feel like a normalized miserabilism, but Naru’s exceptional combativeness overrides a sense of despair.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Straight Circle (2025) Nicholas Bell As could be predicted, the film builds to an expected, and ultimate irony. But much like the title suggests, it feels as if we get right back to where we started from.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Fire of Wind (2024) Nicholas Bell Ultimately a tad tiresome even with a slim running time of seventy-four minutes, Fire of Wind suggests Mateus has the eye of a formidable filmmaker, but the narrative feels like more of a concept than statement.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bravo Bene! (2025) Nicholas Bell For those who know nothing about Maresco or his body of work, Bravo Bene! strangely succeeds as a documentary biopic in orienting the audience’s understanding of the man, at least as a director who has had a formidable career in the Italian film industry.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Silent Friend (2025) Nicholas Bell With a vibrating audio palette and crisply edited finesse, Silent Friend becomes a sensuous immersive experience.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Duse (2025) Nicholas Bell Duse accomplishes something of its intention, a frustrating film about a difficult woman who may never have heard of Stanislavsky but certainly embodied his mantra, "It's all about the work."
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Nicholas Bell The immediacy of the title’s importance is speaking directly to the present, utilizing cinema as the tool to break through the apathy of the news cycle.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Stranger (2025) Nicholas Bell Ozon’s take on The Stranger effectively administers the source’s intentions -- and clearly, there is a point, even if Meursault himself would reject it. protagonist.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Nicholas Bell With a familiar wry tone, Jarmusch’s palette may arguably feel slight, but it’s a nuanced exercise examining the eventual evolution experienced between parents and children growing apart.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Nicholas Bell The past informs the present of modern day Naples in Below the Clouds, the latest documentary from Gianfranco Rosi.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) Nicholas Bell It’s a film which basks in banality, at its best inspiring a sense of apathy when it should be evoking dread in the vein of classic 1970s paranoid political thrillers.
Posted Aug 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
At Work (2025) Nicholas Bell A film which feels audaciously removed from the very experiences it believes to profoundly ponder.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Nicholas Bell In a film jam packed with notable names and personas, it’s a film which eventually feels less than the sum of its parts. However, those prone to the paralytic trance of Hollywood glitter might be dazzled by its superficial excesses.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Orphan (2025) Nicholas Bell Rife with disturbing symbolism, Orphan does take painstaking time to take flight, and the build up sometimes feels like it’s spinning its wheels over obvious territory.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Mother (2025) Nicholas Bell As the loose-fitting, overtly generic title suggests, this is merely an impression, and doesn’t quite configure how Mother Teresa became a humanitarian symbol.
Posted Aug 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
La Grazia (2025) Nicholas Bell Certainly, Sorrentino does ask questions worth pondering. But the corresponding answers are often monosyllabic.
Posted Aug 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Mastermind (2025) Nicholas Bell Compared to Reichardt’s greatest hits thus far, it’s her least compelling presentation of a solitary, melancholic character to date.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Young Mothers (2025) Nicholas Bell ...[The Young Mother's Home is] another tenderly administered portrait of the human condition from directors who have mastered the ability to capture such experiences without resorting to fussy declarations or cheap sentimentality.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Resurrection (2025) Nicholas Bell But despite it’s arguable ostentatiousness, Gan’s ability to translate cinema as a dreamlike state is certainly exceptional, and there are elements which run along the same wavelengths as David Lynch.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Night Moves (1975) Nicholas Bell Sharp’s level of complex characterization is impressive in this nervous neo-noir,
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Nicholas Bell Joachim Trier delivers his own sterling parallels to Ingmar Bergman in his sixth feature, Sentimental Value, which contends with the circuitous reconciliation between a father and daughter through art.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Caravan (2025) Nicholas Bell The film itself is largely an internalized narrative, and it’s the physicality shared by Geislerová and Vodstrčil which propels the film’s quiet but meaningful relationship driven meaning.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Woman and Child (2025) Nicholas Bell Curiously, it’s an ensemble piece wherein no one is inherently likable, which casts a murky pallor over a film which insistently defies morality considering no one seems capable of doing the right thing.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Yes! (2025) Nicholas Bell Lapid’s latest is an admonition of almost shocking import, an increasingly rare example of modern art speaking truth to power.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The History of Sound (2025) Nicholas Bell A film that doesn’t sob but quietly sheds tears into a pillow.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Romería (2025) Nicholas Bell A film which feels like a humble, highly personal exercise in catharsis for Simon. However, the increasingly monotonous narrative, underserved by a lack of dramatic conflict and a muted character arc, fails to compel.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Fuori (2025) Nicholas Bell Mournful but also celebratory, Martone isn’t shying away from the unpleasant aspects of Sapienza’s life, but rather attempting to show how fascinating she was because of them.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Nicholas Bell There’s no doubt with this explicit critique, which utilizes a familiar narrative formula but has the potency of a poison pen letter aimed to slash through the debilitating censorship demanded of auteurs expected to exist as prisms of propaganda.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Sleepless City (2025) Nicholas Bell Understated and featuring likable lead performances from its nonprofessional cast, Sleepless City feels too familiar to feel restless about.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Eagles of the Republic (2025) Nicholas Bell A strident, matter-of-fact tonality tends to purposefully avoid tension building through dark satire, but its subversive potential never dives deeper than a superficial tease.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Alpha (2025) Nicholas Bell It’s as if the film is afraid of stillness, to distract us from pondering, trying to delay us from the realization of what’s happening even though it’s fairly evident early on.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wild Foxes (2025) Nicholas Bell Unfortunately, its frustratingly familiar tropes never transcend the obvious trajectories.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Useful Ghost (2025) Nicholas Bell Bizarre but often poignant in its existential pondering on what motivates these disembodied spirits to remain behind, Boonbunchachoke mines the essence of eternal unfinished business.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Nicholas Bell Whatever The Phoenician Scheme seems to be offering, congratulations to those who are enlightened or enlivened through the consumption of its contrived excess. For those numb to its charms, it’s nothing short of trying.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
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