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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Leila’s Brothers | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Roustayi Ponders Poverty in Familial Melodrama “Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it...

La Jauría | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Beasts in the Jungle: Pulido Suffers the Children in Sinister Debut At the bizarre intersection of a walkabout and a penal colony is La Jauría...

Les Amandiers (Forever Young) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Mixed Nuts: Tedeschi Returns to Acting School in Charming, Vigorous Homage For her fifth narrative feature, the indefatigable Valeria Bruni Tedeschi conjures a nostalgic reunion...

Don Juan | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Woman is a Woman: Bozon Invokes the Eternal Seducer in Eccentric Musical Much like Casanova, the name Don Juan has become a euphemism for...

Nos Cérémonies (Summer Scars) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Summertime Sadness: Reith Explores Brotherly Love with Ominous Magical Realism It’s a formulation as old as storytelling, two men whose love for one another is...

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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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