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:

She Will | 2021 Locarno Film Festival Review

She Wants Revenge: Colbert Commingles Traumas for a Witchy Saga Director Charlotte Colbert delivers a moody character portrait mired in the mysteriousness of folk horror...

The Macaluso Sisters | Review

Sister Acts: Dante Wallows in Tragedy Defined Sisterhood Director Emma Dante spins a melancholic web of familial woe following five women defined by tragic circumstances...

Never Gonna Snow Again | Review

Intimate Strangers: Szumowska & Englert Explore Despondency & Isolation Our innate capacity for constructing the vehicles of our own alienation and ennui inform the backdrop...

Mama Weed | Review

Selective Affinities: High-Fives for Huppert & Hannelore Cayre in Vivacious French Neo-noir Often described as cold, icy, impassive, and inscrutable, the performances of Isabelle Huppert,...

Annette | Review

Henry Fool: Music & Misogyny Explored in Glossy Return of Carax Like nearly all of Leos Carax’s films over the past thirty years (of which...

Breaking

Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...
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