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 Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed...

Oase (Oasis) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Child Inside: Lenz Explores the Virtues of Violence For his narrative feature debut Oasis, Jannis Lenz channels contemporary intergenerational neglect and the inherent apathy...

Possible Love | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch of Class Boiled down to its core essence, Possible Love, the first feature from South Korean...

It Will Happen Tonight (Succederà questa notte) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Birds, the Bees and the (Displaced) Italians: Moretti Tries Amour For In the latter half of his career, revered Italian director Nanni Moretti has...

Primetime | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Catcher in the Sty: Oppenheim Skewers Hack Journalist It’s perhaps fortuitous for Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut Primetime, which charts the brief but meteoric run...

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Agata the Writer | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Blindness of Strangers: Dorabialski Stings the Storyteller “In the...

Woman Unknown | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Penile Code: el-Toukhy Explores the Gendered Paradox of...

The Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness...

Oase (Oasis) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Child Inside: Lenz Explores the Virtues of Violence For...
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