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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It Was Just an Accident | Review

Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution Jafar Panahi continues to poke the bear with It Was Just an Accident, his latest being another film...

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | Review

You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,...

The Hyperboreans | Review

From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing...

A House of Dynamite | Review

On a Nuclear Day You Can See Forever: Bigelow’s Living in a Powder-keg, Giving Off Sparks With the doomsday clock adjusted to eighty-nine seconds to...

The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) | Review

Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell A chilly scene of winter unfolds in La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) at a glacial...

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Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Celestial Orgy: Haroun Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts Nestled deep...

A New Dawn | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Grave of the Fireworks: Shinomiya Finds All the Colors...

Lali | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Ghosts of Past & Present: Sultan Khoosat Hones His...

Roya | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

I Confess: Mohammadi's Myriad of Memory Celebrates Women of...
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