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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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...

Playground | Review

Suffer the Children: Wandel Explores Bullying Through a Child’s Perspective in Superb Debut If everything one needs to know is learned in kindergarten, part of...

Ballad of a White Cow | Review

Kismet Kisses: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Mine Intimate Vengeance in Rich Melodrama The opening moments of Ballad of a White Cow evokes a quote from Al-Baqarah...

Fabian – Going to the Dogs | Review

The Dog Days Aren’t Over: Graf Puts a New Coat of Paint on the Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic, aka the German Republic, which lasted...

The Worst Person In The World | Review

Sometimes She Loved Them Too: Trier Formulates Winning Composite of Love and Self Discovery For his fifth film, The Worst Person in the World, Norway’s...

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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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