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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Interview: Lars Nilsen – Warped and Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive

I chatted with Lars Nilsen for his publication Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of The American Genre Film Archive (edited by...

Being the Ricardos [Video Review]

Producers: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch. Executive producers: Jenna Block, Stuart Besser, David Bloomfield, Lauren Lohman, Lucie Arnaz, Desi Arnaz Jr. Director: Aaron Sorkin. Screenplay: Aaron...

Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) | Review

The Lives of Mothers: Almodovar’s Melodrama Mines the Personal and Political Coincidences abound in Parallel Mothers, the latest soap dish from Spain’s perennial auteur, Pedro...

Swan Song [Video Review]

Producer: Mahershala Ali, Rebecca Bourke, Jonathan King, Jacob Perlin, Adam Shulman, Mimi Valdés. Executive Producers: Shea Kammer. Director: Benjamin Cleary. Screenplay: Benjamin Cleary. Camera: Masanobu Takayanagi. Editor: Nathan Nugent. Music:...

Nightmare Alley [Video Review]

Guillermo Del Toro's latest might not feel like a major departure from his general reputation as a creature-centric creator type, but there is a...

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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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