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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A Piece of Sky (Drii Winter) | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review

Poor Cow: Koch Devises Solemn Melodrama of a Tortured Romance Delivering a steady handed narrative as full of sincerity as it is austerity, Swiss director...

AEIOU – A Quick Alphabet of Love | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review

The Consonants of Love: Krebitz Gets Caught in an Odd Romance “It all begins with A,” so begins the omniscient third-person narration of Anna, an...

La ligne | Review

Fists Out of Pocket: Meier Mines Superficial Dysfunction with Uneven Comic Melodrama Although she’s been working on a variety of documentary and short projects, not...

Incredible But True | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review

Beauty Secrets: Dupieux Latest a Strangely Tragic Fable on Human Foibles The films of Quentin Dupieux, a prolific Belgian director who has spent most of...

Minamata | Review

Man with a Movie Camera: Levitas Aims for Noble Rendering of Horrific Toxic Waste Contamination You’ve heard it before---corporate greed and government corruption colluding to...

Breaking

YES | Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially,...

Kontinental ’25 | Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status...

Alpha | Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Midnight, Cannes Premiere, Special Screenings, Out of Comp

Before we dive headfirst into full-on Palme d’Or predictions...
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