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:

YES | Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially, YES, the latest film from Israeli auteur Nadav Lapid, is a portrait of an artist...

Kontinental ’25 | Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status Quo Ownership is an unsaid key word in Kontinental ’25, the latest perambulating spasm from Romanian...

Alpha | Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory “Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a...

Pompei: Below the Clouds | Review

Staples of Naples: Rosi Sifts Through Timeworn Sediments The past informs the present of modern day Naples in Below the Clouds, the latest documentary from...

The Stranger (L’étranger) | Review

Anatomy of a Mime: Ozon Explores the Seduction of Indifference Decades before Hannah Arendt introduced her concept of ‘the banality of evil,’ Albert Camus...

Breaking

2027 Oscars: Austria Backs Hüller as ‘Rose’ in the Best Intl. Feature Film Category

Austria were in a bit of a pickle situation...

Train to Busan | Review

Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut...
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