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.

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A Man of His Time (Notre salut) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Lost Illusions: Marre Administers Plodding Portrait of an Opportunist “There’s nothing worse than being bored with a boring man,” according to French writer Antoine Laurain....

Titanic Ocean | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Deep Sea, Baby: Kotzamani Goes Down Where It’s Wetter Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani heads to Japan for her directorial debut, Titanic Ocean, its fanciful title...

Minotaur | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Cranes Aren’t Flying: Zvyagintsev Unleashes Primordial Tendencies “They always end disastrously,” Kate Burton advises Diane Lane of extramarital affairs in Adrian Lyne’s 2002 erotic...

Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Women on the Verge of a Creative Breakdown: Almodovar Explores Anxious Inspirations “All literature is gossip,” quipped Truman Capote, an iconoclast whose predilection for ‘borrowing’...

Fjord | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven to logical extremes in Fjord, Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s first foray outside of his native...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!

The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winners...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Léa Mysius’ ‘Histoires de la Nuit’

Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on...

The Black Ball (La bola negra) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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