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.

Exclusive articles:

What Marielle Knows | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Best Little Secrets Are Kept: Hambalek’s Absurdly Skewers the Virtues of Honesty Honesty may indeed be the best policy and maybe the truth might...

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,...

On vous croit (We believe you) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and...

Girls on Wire | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Mad Bills to Pay: Qu Stages Miserabilist Soap Opera If Girls on Wire settles on anything clear to say it’s quite simply that crime doesn’t...

The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell A chilly scene of winter unfolds in La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) at a glacial...

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Interview: Ariane Labed – September Says

A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane...

Interview: Jessica Palud – Being Maria

In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released...

Interview: Sarah Friedland & Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch

A work-in-progress participant at the 2023 American Film Festival...
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