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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The Lost Daughter | Review

Parallel Mothers: Gyllenhaal Paints a Dark Portrait in Sinister Ferrante Adaptation “Attention is the purest form of hospitality,” is a quote from Simone Weil utilized...

Video Interview: Jimmy Wan & Hon Siu Ching – Zero to Hero

Hong Kong's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Jimmy Wan's Zero to Hero, a biopic on...

Video Interview: Ayten Amin – Souad

Egypt's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Ayten Amin's Souad, which received the official Cannes 2020...

The Unforgivable [Video Review]

Healing the emotional wounds in the present day from the missteps of the past is part of the taxing bliss found in Nora Fingscheidt's...

France | Review

France de France: Dumont Soars with Offbeat Melodrama on Media & Misogyny Few and far between are odd cinematic delights so deliberately off-center and...

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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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