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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Seance [Video Review]

The Girlfriend Experience: Barrett Mines B-Movie Tropes in Hybrid Throwback There’s no greater hotbed of dysfunction and perversity than the homosocial staples of either the...

A Quiet Place Part II [Video Review]

Islands in the Stream: Krasinski Doesn’t Disappoint with Long Awaited Genre Sequel There’s something intrinsically inviting about the grueling survival odyssey of the Abbott family,...

Adoration | Review

Gloria, You’re Always on the Run Now: Du Welz Completes Ardennes Trilogy with Innocence Lost in Dark Fairy Tale An exercise wherein true and unfaltering...

The Retreat [Video Review]

The Hateful Straights: Mills Finds Bigots in the Backwoods in Exploitation Effort One of the many silver linings of genre filmmaking is the powerful...

Spring Blossom (Seize printemps) | Review

The Flower of Her Secret: Lindon Conquers a Crush in Directorial Debut Exemplifying the sincere transitional period Britney Spears famously moaned about when she sang...

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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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