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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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2/5
Parallel Tales (2026) Nicholas Bell Parallel Tales feels completely hollow. Whatever its formidable inspiration might be, this could have easily been titled A Long Film About Peeping based on how bluntly it mangles the complex themes of Kieślowski or Simenon.
Posted May 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Fatherland (2026) Nicholas Bell Beyond the various confrontations with singing chorus members accosting them at every step of their journey, this is a joyless endeavor, capturing a specific catch-22 conundrum mashing together doomed cultural and familial expectations.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) Nicholas Bell It’s difficult to point to any other recent cinematic grapplings which so enchantingly elevate what’s long been dismissed as low brow to the heights of such a stridently sacred altar.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
A Woman's Life (2026) Nicholas Bell Patches of narrative banality and fussy details are thankfully overshadowed by an effervescent lead performance which manages to unite all the messy threads into a satisfying melancholic portrait of a rigid personality.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Nagi Notes (2026) Nicholas Bell Certainly, Nagi Notes feels like Fukada at his gentlest, and there are passages which could easily be mistaken for something by Hirokazu Kore-eda. However, Fukada eventually slices through the ambiguities.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Electric Kiss (2026) Nicholas Bell Salvadori’s greatest crime is denying Antoine and Suzanne the space to develop the chemistry which makes their budding romance seem plausible.
Posted May 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
My Wife Cries (2026) Nicholas Bell If there have ever been any cast of characters in need of a significant addiction issue to kick things up a notch, it’s these milquetoast non-entities.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dust (2026) Nicholas Bell Committed lead performances from noted Belgian thesps Arieh Worthalter and Jan Hammenecker aside, a lengthy running time seems to stretch indefinitely with a narrative void of any real peaks or valleys.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Loneliest Man in Town (2026) Nicholas Bell Covi and Frimmel’s works are often quiet, methodical studies, all which find their own inviting, specific rhythm. Through their observational lens, a vibrant portrait of a melancholic but complex man emerges
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Flies (2026) Nicholas Bell The real momentum of the film belongs to Bastian Escobar, who is, in essence, just being a child who misses his mother. The lesson learned here is old as human existence -- you catch more flies with honey.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars (2026) Nicholas Bell Ultimately, Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars feels stitched together haphazardly, and somewhat of a disappointment from the usually pristine Haroun.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird) (2026) Nicholas Bell By the end of the film, it’s unclear why this project would seem sublime to anyone other than those who were consumed by its creation.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
A New Dawn (2026) Nicholas Bell Strange, but not particularly cohesive, A New Dawn doesn't quite live up to its title or [its] prestige.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
We Are All Strangers (2026) Nicholas Bell Working class realities and economic disparity are not an excuse for hokum.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
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
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