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Josh Bell

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Biography:

Josh Bell is a freelance writer and movie/TV critic based in Las Vegas. He’s the former film editor of Las Vegas Weekly and the former TV comedies guide for About.com. He has written about movies, TV, and pop culture for Vulture, IndieWire, Inverse, Polygon, and more. With comedian Jason Harris, he co-hosts the podcast Awesome Movie Year.

Favorites:

Heathers, Fight Club, South Park, Clerks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Craft, Scream, The Big Lebowski, Bound, Wild Things, Almost Famous, Batman (Tim Burton-style), Rosemary's Baby, The Birds, Manhattan, Bring It On, Gattaca, Carrie, Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Breathless, Lone Star, La Femme Nikita, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Heat

Location:

Las Vegas

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Thinestra (2025) B- EDIT “The plot is lacking, but the vibes are on point.” – Crooked Marquee Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Screams From the Tower (2024) C EDIT “The supporting performances are fun, and Grant has a strong eye for period detail, but his main character sucks up all the energy.” – Crooked Marquee Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Heads or Tails? (2025) 87% B- EDIT “John C. Reilly's take on Buffalo Bill as a genial, bloviating huckster is the best thing about this movie, which suffers during the long stretches when he's offscreen.” – Crooked Marquee Apr 7, 2026 Full Review I Know Exactly How You Die (2026) C EDIT “Rian is a pathetic whiner who doesn’t seem to understand the basics of writing, and the movie is as disjointed and unsatisfying as his rushed novel.” – Crooked Marquee Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Papa Bear (2025) D EDIT “No kids in any nation deserve to be subjected to this abysmal Russian family comedy.” – Crooked Marquee Apr 7, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 42% 1.5/4 EDIT “Viewers who love being able to point at things they recognize will no doubt be pleased.” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Apr 2, 2026 Full Review A Magnificent Life (2025) 63% 2/4 EDIT “Marcel Pagnol may have had a magnificent life, but the movie about him is disappointingly ordinary.” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Blazing Fists (2025) C EDIT “It's all played for maximum melodrama, and the fight scenes are mediocre, without any forward momentum.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Videotheque (2024) C+ EDIT “Bursac is good at mimicking the look and structure of his influences, but he falls short on narrative substance.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 24, 2026 Full Review INT. HALLWAY / NIGHT (2026) C- EDIT “Rather than deal directly with his characters' emotional conflicts, Zane abstracts them into meaninglessness.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Golden (2025) C EDIT “Brian Austin Green doesn't have the grit or the charisma to play a roguish counterfeiter, and he gives an inert performance in an inert movie.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “The filmmakers exchange scientific rigor for crowd-pleasing simplicity, crafting a solid piece of mainstream entertainment that's not quite as smart as it makes itself out to be.” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Forbidden City (2025) 89% B+ EDIT “This stylish but overlong action movie finds creative ways to blend cultures, even if it can get bogged down in its elaborate plotting.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Agent Zero (2026) B+ EDIT “There's nothing new about the story, but it moves swiftly from one set piece to another, with just enough intrigue and anguish to keep the audience engaged.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Trucker (2024) C EDIT “The characters in this forgettable horror movie say the title so many times that it becomes laughable.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Stray Bodies (2024) C+ EDIT “Greek director Elina Psykou's documentary about several European women seeking restricted healthcare leap-frogs from one nation to another without settling on a coherent point of view. ” – Crooked Marquee Mar 10, 2026 Full Review NFT: Cursed Images (2026) C- EDIT “Cursed Images lacks even the staying power of the ephemeral online trend it's chasing.” – Crooked Marquee Mar 10, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% 2.5/4 EDIT “Ultimately, though, EPiC doesn't need to understand or analyze Presley. Just showing him onstage in all his glory, letting his talent speak for itself, is all that's necessary. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Last Ride (2026) B- EDIT “An unwieldy but often heartfelt story about childhood bonding.” – Crooked Marquee Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Kangaroo Kids (2023) D+ EDIT “The kangaroo is the only cast member who isn’t painfully overacting, and she spends most of her screentime stuffed in a sack.” – Crooked Marquee Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Hellfire (2026) C EDIT “Reliable DTV action director Isaac Florentine pulls off a couple of decent action sequences, but Lang is no Scott Adkins, and the combat is more rote than dynamic.” – Crooked Marquee Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Blood Barn (2025) C EDIT “Director and co-writer Gabriel Bernini knows how to emulate the look of low-budget vintage horror, but he doesn't offer much more than that.” – Crooked Marquee Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 73% 2.5/4 EDIT “Hosoda honors Shakespeare while making a brooding, bombastic movie that's purely his own.” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Acts of Love (2025) C+ EDIT “At a certain point, the obsession with past abuse starts to come off like celebration.” – Crooked Marquee Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Roaring Game (2025) C- EDIT “Curling is such an inherently goofy-looking sport that it shouldn't be difficult to make an effective comedy about it, but writer-director Tom DeNucci still fails miserably with this threadbare, unfunny effort.” – Crooked Marquee Feb 3, 2026 Full Review
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