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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Written on the Wind (1956) | Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review

Despite having directed several dozen films across a career which ranged from 1930s Germany to late 1950s Hollywood, Douglas Sirk is best remembered for...

The Batman | Review

Gotham, Open City: Reeves Reconstitutes an Anti-Hero in Moody Reboot Who would have ever predicted in the fifty-plus years since Adam West first donned the...

Mother Schmuckers | Review

O Brother, Why Art Thou?: The Guit Bros. Get Down & Out in Bizarre Debut Something is rotten in the state of Belgium, or so...

Fresh | Review

Meats for the Meat: Cave Goes for Broke in Gross Out Horror Debut You are what you eat is an adage taken to literal extremes...

My Best Part (Garçon chiffon) | Review

Green Eyes, They’re Crying: Maury Mines Sorrow in Tragicomic Debut Actor Nicolas Maury crafts his own starring vehicle in My Best Part (Garçon chiffon) 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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