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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The Woodcutter Story | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

One Flew Over the Cuckold’s Nest: Myllylahti Contends Hope Floats in Black Comedy By their nature, fables provide fanciful cinematic avenues of metaphorical expression as...

Tchaikovsky’s Wife | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Lady Beard: Serebrennikov Delivers Extravagant Recuperation of a Woman Undone Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the 19th century’s most prolific composers, whose music remains an...

Esterno notte (Exterior Night) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Dead in Red: Bellocchio Returns to Infamous Kidnapping for Television Debut In his continuation in recuperating fantastical elements of Italian political and criminal history, Marco...

2022 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated!

It's the most important film event in the world and physically it stretches from the Grand Lumiere theatre (which houses plenty of films including...

Operation Mincemeat | Review

Get Them to the Greek: Madden Traipses Lightly Through Factual WWII Espionage Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John...

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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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