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 Loneliest Man in Town | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Perfect Blue: Covi & Frimmel Marinate in Memories “Everything changing all the time. Even the air you breathing change,” notes a character in August Wilson’s...

Home Stories | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Trobisch Mines Banality in Family Drama Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way…and sometimes those unhappy ways are...

Flies (Moscas) | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

All the Small Things: Eimbcke Explores the Pleasures of Disruption The titular insects of Fernando Eimbcke’s latest feature, Flies (Moscas), metaphorically represent an unwanted, aggravating...

Wolfram | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Torn Birds: Thornton Returns to Brutality of the Australian Frontier The sovereignty of Australia was never officially ceded by its First Nations peoples, succinctly...

My Wife Cries | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Where Did Our Love Go?: Schanalec Deconstructs the Break-Up Drama True to form, or rather, anti-form, Angela Schanelec’s latest exercise, My Wife Cries (Meine Frau...

Breaking

Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third...

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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