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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YES | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially, YES, the latest film from Israeli auteur Nadav Lapid, is a portrait of an artist...

Romería | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras,...

Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza “Never refuse to see the unpleasant aspects of life,” wrote Goliarda Sapienza in her widely...

Eagles of the Republic | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

One Flew Over the Coup’s Nest: Saleh Muddles Through Propaganda Politics “Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible....

The Richest Woman in the World | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Biggest Camel: Klifa Recruits Huppert to Spoof the Bettencourt Affair Thierry Klifa, who continues to work some of the most notable grand dames of...

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2025 André Bazin Prize: Louise Hémon’s ‘The Girl in the Snow’ (L’Engloutie) Wins

Selected for this year's Directors' Fortnight, Louise Hémon's The...

Interview: Morad Mostafa – Aisha Can’t Fly Away

Part of a new wave of Egyptian filmmakers testing...

2026 Sundance: Walter Thompson-Hernández, Kogonada & Makoto Nagahisa in the NEXT Section

Walter Thompson-Hernández, Kogonada and Makoto Nagahisa are just some...
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