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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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...

Continental Drift (South) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Conventional Liaisons: Baier Leans into the Comedy of Crisis Through Familial Rift Swiss director Lionel Baier completes the third section of an intended four part...

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Interview: Benjamín Naishtat & Esteban Bigliardi – Glaxo

World premiering at the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival,...

2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: New Projects by Sofia Alaoui, Yasmine Benkiran & Jessy Moussallem at the Atlas Workshops

Moroccan filmmakers Meryem Benm’barek, Sofia Alaoui and Yasmine Benkiran...

Club Kid | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

La bola negra | Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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