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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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...

The Unknown (L’Inconnue) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

She Who Is Not: Harari Explores Existential Identity Issues in the Body Swap “A woman, for me, must remain a woman,” stated Andrey Tarkovsky when...

Hope | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Monster Squad: Hong-jin Goes Full-Blown Extraterrestrial For his fourth feature, South Korean director Na Hong-jin goes for breakneck, relentless mayhem in the curiously titled Hope....

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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...

Titanic Ocean | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Deep Sea, Baby: Kotzamani Goes Down Where It’s Wetter Greek...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Bitter Christmas’

The only title to have had its world premiere...

Minotaur | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Cranes Aren’t Flying: Zvyagintsev Unleashes Primordial Tendencies “They always...
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