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Nicholas Bell

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Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Yellow Letters (2026) 2/5 EDIT “What really bogs down Yellow Letters is a tonal repetitiveness which feels unrelenting. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review In A Whisper (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Eya Bouterra’s performance deftly centers the film.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review No Good Men (2026) 3.5/5 EDIT “Sadat sets the scene with details which could easily feel like a normalized miserabilism, but Naru’s exceptional combativeness overrides a sense of despair. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Melania (2026) 11% 1/5 EDIT “As a portrait of a vestigial appendage to the dangerous machine dissolving democracy, "Melania" is merely a well shot marketing campaign for the luckiest Stepford wife as she spouts innocuous, vague details on First Lady expectations...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “A straightforward but loving homage to the incomparable comic Maria Bamford examining her life and professional accomplishments, including how they intertwined to create one of the most uniquely down-to-earth innovators of her craft. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 97% 2.5/5 EDIT “Frustrating and formidably uncomfortable, Beth de Araujo presents a compelling portrait of the rippling effects of trauma but unfortunately spins wheels on repetitive characterizations, ultimately feeling a bit one dimensional and sometimes cliche...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Carousel (2026) 70% 2.5/5 EDIT “A bit too simple and too meandering to generate any significant emotional response, the chemistry between Pine and Slate is enough to coast by on in Lambert's old-fashioned adult romance, which could have used a bit of soap to lather up some sentiment.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “Even as it relies too heavily on fantasy sequences, Thompson-Hernandez captures a solemn and profound portrait of dreams distilled by intergenerational trauma, ultimately delivering a beautiful, emotionally charged and stupendously shot drama...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Tell Me Everything (2026) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “Despite the dramatic parameters defining the backdrop of Tell Me Everything, Rosenthal establishes a somewhat tranquil but meaningful exercise on regret and reconciliation that italicizes the sentiment 'the truth shall set you free.'” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Natchez (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Natchez is about a specific place obsessed with and defined by a specific era, and perhaps it's not surprising that a documentary about antebellum tourism provides the most potent and observant microcosm of America's arrested development...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 64% 3/5 EDIT “The warping realities of celebrity are satirized in this waggish but often thoughtful mockumentary which finds Charli xcx processing the demands of commerce eclipsing creation, as if it's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Machine.'” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 19% 1.5/5 EDIT “Visually arresting manifestations of trauma aren't enough to sustain Gahn's return to the video game adaptation...now reducing his gloomy netherworld to a somnolence only interrupted by disdain generated for its wooden performances.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “Sam Raimi returns to adult flavored cinema with Send Help, featuring a stellar Rachel McAdams in a survivor noir asserting 'the female of the species is more deadly than the male.'” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Moses the Black (2026) 23% 1/5 EDIT “Despite the efforts of its intriguing ensemble, Moses the Black is only successful as a case study of failed artistic hubris, simultaneously showcasing the inherent limitations of cinema wielded as thinly veiled religious propaganda...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 52% 1.5/5 EDIT “Besson's unnecessary take on Dracula is a jarring, oxymoronic exercise of glossy visuals often marred by subpar effects and clunky dialogue navigated by principal cast members who were seemingly all told to do whatever the hell they wanted...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 2.5/5 EDIT “Bekmambetov may have an innovative knack for slick pacing, as well as a forward thinking fascination with topical themes elevated by the incorporation of modern technology, but this hokey wrong-man thriller could have been much more astute...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Killer Whale (2026) 21% .5/5 EDIT “If the purpose of cinema is to elicit some kind of emotional response, something like Killer Whale is more akin to a screen saver since it's completely inert, inept, and egregiously insipid in every way imaginable.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% 3.5/5 EDIT “An exceptional Jodie Foster is a prickly protagonist in Zlotowski's mysterious character study which charts an ambiguous, sometimes ineffable, journey for a private woman learning to be open in her environment. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/5 EDIT “DaCosta's Bone Temple ends up being the piece de resistance of a foundation laid by Boyle's previous film---a brutal, cathartic, and subversive narrative playing out on a much more contained palette, suggesting the only way...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 2.5/5 EDIT “The Rip fails to establish the necessary characterization to hook us into this nebulous heist thriller which meanders far too long in a single location (without building tension) before we get to Carnahan's forte as an action director. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 49% 1/5 EDIT “This wholly unnecessary sequel mostly inspires a cynical death wish for the irksome family attempting to survive their next steps drudging through a declawed dystopia like an obstacle course in a vintage live action Disney flick. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Primate is a bit primitive in its narrative and characterization departments and Roberts should have monkeyed around a bit more with the script to enhance the gore and practical effects with a bit of subversive commentary.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Van Sant has satirized media culpability much more subversively in the past, which makes Dead Man's Wire feel like an entertaining but tonal hiccup...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Hilditch, who seems to have a yen for end-of-the-world narratives, presents a surprisingly eerie and intimate modern zombie film, though its best assets are a trio of traumatized humans...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review
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