Nicholas Bell

4587 POSTS
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:

Vortex | Review

All That We See or Seem: Noe Delivers Devastation Through the Definitiveness of Death There’s no pleasure to be had, whatsoever, in the experiencing...

Memory | Review

Still Liam: Campbell Eclipsed by the Neeson Blueprint in Middling Thriller Now over a decade into the perennial routine of a yearly (sometimes quarterly) B-grade...

I Love America | Review

I Never Sang for My Mother: Azuelos Mines Own Experiences for Dynamic Melodrama Presenting a narrative partially autobiographical in nature with her latest film, I...

Black Box | Review

Guilt By Aviation: Gozlan Delivers Intrigue with Paranoia Tinged Tech Thriller Director Yann Gozlan returns to the realm of social pariahs in his fourth...

Hatching | Review

The Egg & I: Bergholm Births Straightforward Tween Body Horror Finland’s Hanna Bergholm makes a splash with her interesting, if ultimately one-note debut, Hatching,...

Breaking

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Un Certain Regard

Introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, the Un Certain...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Directors’ Fortnight

It’s nearly impossible to predict what the programming crew...

2026 Eurimages: Mia Hansen-Love, Justine Triet, Bertrand Bonello & Mungiu/Uricaru Land Coin

World cinema heavyweights Mia Hansen-Love, Justine Triet and Bertrand...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Critics’ Week

The parallel selection dedicated to debut and sophomore features...
spot_imgspot_img