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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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,...

Firebird | Review

Bird on a Wire: Rebane Resurrects a Familiar Stymied Love Affair in Absurd Melodrama Over a century ago, Lord Alfred Douglas coined the euphonious phrase...

The Duke | Review

The Goya Next Door: Michell’s Swan Song a Slender Thread of Anti-authoritarianism We’re primed to believe in the importance of a film whenever we’re greeted...

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Review

The Cage Bird Sings: Gormican Gifts Nic Cage Meta Fan Fiction in Jaunty Caper Not since Spike Jonze’s send-up of John Malkovich’s pomposity in Being...

Forever a Woman: Six Films by Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective

One can’t dig too deep in Japan’s cinematic catalogue without confronting the talents of Kinuyo Tanaka. History has chosen to favor Tanaka’s career as...

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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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