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 Power of the Dog | Review

Dog Days Aren’t Over: Campion Returns with Menacing Gothic Western Although Jane Campion’s work in television has created an innovative and expansive platform for the...

Uppercase Print | Review

Capital Crimes: The Play’s the Thing in Jude’s Rendering of Secret Police Files Romanian director Radu Jude lets no grass grow under his feet, back...

Spencer | Review

In the Name of the Rose: Larrain Crafts Empathetic Portrait of an Icon in Anguish The eternal impact of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose...

The Harder They Fall [Video Review]

Zest of the West: Samuels’ Western Soap Opera Long on Style, Short on Substance In a film which plays as both recuperation and revisionism,...

Sisters | Review

O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Benguigui Explores Fractured Cultural Identities in Meta Drama It’s been two decades since French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui released her exceptional...

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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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