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:

Bucking Fastard | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Herzog Returns with Theater of the Bizarre Until quite recently, it was a foregone conclusion legendary director Werner Herzog would...

Ink | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Sun Also Rises: Boyle Explores the Origins of Media Sensationalism If, as Alan Moore posits, “It is the job of the artists to give...

Train to Busan | Review

Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut Heavy on Tropes Zombie contagion sweeps over South Korea while a random band of survivors struggle...

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | Review

The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act...

Her Private Hell | Review

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?: Refn Returns with Vacuous Vengeance After disappearing into television for the past decade, Nicolas Winding Refn once again...

Breaking

The City of the Living | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Autopsy Audit: Gabbriellini Examines the Choices Before the Mistakes Those...

A Place To Heal (15/18) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Teenage Wasteland: Kahn Gets Clinical with Familiar Procedural Picture this:...

House of the Wind (La maison du vent) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

If You Build It, They Won't Come: Yanghu Offers...

2026 Venice Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet & Clips for Sebastián Múnera’s Meteorito

The violence of Colombia’s past has been repackaged as...
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