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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Both Sides of the Blade | Review

Lover Come Back: Denis Lets the Dark Side in Relationship Melodrama Three’s definitely a crowd in Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement),...

Down with the King | Review

King Without a Crown: Ongaro Crafts a Rap Trap in Portrait of Creative Crisis Fifteen years ago, Jay-Z defiantly declared “Thirty’s the new twenty” in...

Beauty | Review

It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay: Dosunmu Finds Fame is a Heartbreak Hotel in Familiar Melodrama Destined to be the oddest entry in Andrew Dosunmu’s...

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Review

Clam Happy: Fleischer-Camp Fleshes Out His Amusing/Absurd Sketch of a Precocious Mollusk On paper, the inevitability of something like Marcel the Shell with Shoes On...

Lost Highway (1997) | Review

Fugue De Chao: Lynch Hits the Yellow Bricks in Masterful, Neglected Daymare “I like to remember things my own way,” remarks the onerous protagonist of...

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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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