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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Fever Dream | Review

Threadlock: Llosa Drifts into Elegant Nightmare with Faithful Adaptation For her fourth feature, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa adapts Samanta Shweblin’s enigmatic novel Fever Dream, a...

Bergman Island | Review

The Passion of Mia: Hansen-Love Makes Her Own Place at the Table For her complex and absorbing seventh feature, Bergman Island, Mia Hansen-Løve returns to...

Halloween Kills | Review

Boogeyman Nights: Green Overextends Himself in the Myers Saga There is truth in having too much of a good thing, or, rather, adhering to the...

Son of Monarchs | Review

Butterflies Are Free: Gambis Mines Identity Through Metaphor/mosis in Sophomore Film Director Alexis Gambis returns to his favored motif of genetics in his latest film...

South of Heaven | Review

Heaven’s Grate: Keshales Settles for Watered Down Tropes in English Debut Nearly a decade ago, directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado promised to usher in...

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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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