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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Gully [Video Review]

Goodbye South Central, Goodbye: Elderkin Grapples with Uneven Urban Soap Opera If Donald Goines had written YA literature, it might have looked something like Gully,...

Port Authority [Video Review]

Category is The Realness: Lessovitz Isn’t Strictly Ballroom in Star Crossed Romance To acknowledge the formidable, everlasting impact of Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary Paris is...

Undine | Review

Till Human Voices Wake Us: Petzold Gets Mythologically Romantic A classical figure of mythology and beyond, the Undine (or Siren), a water nymph creature who’s...

Video Interview: Zaida Bergroth & Alma Pöysti – Tove

Finland’s official submission for the ‘Best International Feature’ category at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 is Tove, the fifth film from Zaida Bergroth,...

My Tender Matador | Review

Pray Away the Pinochet: Sepulveda Cruises Castro with Striking Adaptation While there’s a bounty of burgeoning directors who have grown out of the New Chilean...

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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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