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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Dashcam | Review

Arrhythmia of the Night: Savage Triumphs with Delightfully Bizarre Socio-Horror There’s an art to successful presentations of unlikeable characters, further complicated when a protagonist is...

After Blue (Dirty Paradise) | Review

Taste of a Toxic Paradise: Mandico Casts a Dark Spell with Broody Sci-Fi Through a variety of short films, music videos (including several for M83),...

Top Gun: Maverick | Review

Take My Guilt Away: Kosinski Avoids Cruise Control in Enjoyable Action Sequel Against all odds, especially considering how unnecessary a sequel seems to be...

Masquerade | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Bedos Takes the Grift Shift in French Riviera Crime Caper For a film opening with W. Somerset Maugham’s line, “The French Riviera...

Un petit frère (Mother and Son) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Life in Rouen: Serraille Stacks Perspectives in Muted Tale of Immigration and Identity After taking home the Camera d’Or for her 2017 feature Jeune Femme,...

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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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