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:

Old Henry | Review

The Kid Stays in the Picture: Ponciroli Goes Old Fashioned with Fan Fiction Western At a certain point, revisionism strays so far into its own...

Titane | Review

Car Crash Set: Ducournau Crafts a Cult Classic with Grotesque Odyssey of Dysfunction In J.G. Ballard’s seminal 1973 cult novel Crash, infamously adapted in 1996...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Review

How to Lose Friends & Alien Ate People: Serkis Navigates Odd Bedfellows in Routine Sequel Though perhaps a novel choice for helming Marvel sequel...

No Time to Die | Review

A Time to Love & a Time to Spy: Fukunaga Lays Craig to Rest in Bond Bacchanalian It all comes full circle, or at least...

Inexorable | 2021 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

The Hand that Mocks the Cradle: Du Welz Finds an Interloper in Vintage Throwback Long before a lithesome ingenue shows up to ruin a wealthy...

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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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