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.

Exclusive articles:

The Shrouds | Review

Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David...

A Traveler’s Needs | Review

The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration with Sang-soo There are few directors who seem to rightly channel the comic side of Isabelle...

Grand Tour | Review

Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey In what serves as an extremely taxing personification of cold feet, Miguel Gomes feels as if he’s...

Honey Bunch | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Love Like This Before: Sims-Fewer & Mancinelli Examine the Ethics of Love Canadian filmmaking duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli follow up their disturbing 2020...

Who by Fire (Comme le feu) | Review

Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities In Vincent Sherman’s 1943 Bette Davis-led melodrama Old Acquaintance, the complex relationship between a pair of female frenemies...

Breaking

La cocina | Review

Soap Kitchen: Ruizpalacios Underwhelms & Over Bakes Food Drama Making...

Bonjour Tristesse | Review

Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation...

Most People Die on Sundays | Review

A Month of Sundays: Said Squeezes Magic Out of...

The Scary House | 2025 Udine Far East Film Festival Review

Watanabe Smarter Than Ghosts, but The Scary House Had...
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