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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Taste | Review

In the Realm of the Senses: Le Bao Explores Oblique Pleasures in Handsome Debut Vietnamese filmmaker Lê Bảo announces himself as an immediate director of...

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...

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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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