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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Promises | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review

Broken is the Golden Bowl: Kruithof Rips at the Red Tape in Character Driven Political Drama It’s not so much politics as usual in Les...

Ma Belle, My Beauty | Review

Lover Come Back: Hill’s Debut a Refreshing Portrait of Intimacy and Attraction Three may not actually be a crowd, but it certainly heightens complications in...

Flag Day | Review

Americana Trauma: Penn Returns with Hysterical Melodrama After the formidable misfire of his last directorial effort The Last Face (2016), Sean Penn unfortunately doesn’t fare...

Wildland | Review

Wild in the Streets: Nordahl’s Debut Spins on Devotional Dysfunction The family crest for the sinister brood at the heart of Jeanette Nordahl’s directorial debut...

Wife of a Spy | Review

Spy Game: Kurosawa Finds Passion & Terror in History’s Gloom One doesn’t tend to associate period melodrama or espionage with Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a perennial genre...

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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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