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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Dao | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Family Rituals: Gomis Goes For Broke in Sprawling Epic With his first narrative feature in nearly a decade, French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis formulates a complex...

Everybody Digs Bill Evans | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

A Jazzman’s Blues: Gee Strikes the Right Chords in Tender DocudramaE British filmmaker Grant Gee, heretofore best known as a documentarian of various musical artists,...

Yellow Letters | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

How to Beat the High Cost of Fascism: Çatak Flounders in Blaring Treatise Following his Academy Award nominated The Teacher’s Lounge (2023), Turkish-German director Ilker...

In a Whisper | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

A Death in the Family: Bouzid Explores the Tolls of Open Secrets What’s most expertly encapsulated in Tunisian filmmaker Leyla Bouzid’s third feature In a...

I Understand Your Displeasure | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

In the Realm of Defenses: Friedrich Examines Turmoils of the Working Class Even in the democratic and social federal state of contemporary Germany, all is...

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