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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Nope | Review

Goodbye, Horses: Peele Elevates Creature Feature in Nostalgia Tinged Horror Jordan Peele continues his distinctive mixture of mainstream aesthetics and unconventional tangential elements with his...

Gone in the Night | Review

Rental Condition: Horowitz Navigates Eerie Scenario in Patchwork Psych Thriller Gwen Guthrie famously crooned, “Ain’t nothin’ goin on but the rent,” back in 1986, but...

Earwig | Review

Earsatz: Hadzihalilovic Sinks Her Teeth In Ambiguous Menace For her highly anticipated third feature, France’s Lucile Hadzihalilovic resorts to adaptation with the enigmatic Earwig, based...

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris | Review

Dior on the Floor: Fabian Spins Sweetness into Schmaltz with Anglophile Fairy Tale It’s never too late to follow one’s dreams, as the truncated tagline...

Criterion Collection: Eyimofe (This is My Desire) | Blu-ray Review

Far from the complicated, distressed definition of the Nigerian film movement christened ‘Nollywood’ in the early 2000s, a new coterie of filmmakers have slowly...

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2026 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]

The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley,...
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