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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Sleepless City (Ciudad Sin Sueño) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Boy & His Dog: Galoe Sweeps Through Slums in Restrained Debut Home is where the heart is, but such a sentiment becomes difficult to...

Renoir | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait Going in the opposite direction of her 2022 debut Plan 75, a sci-fi meditation on Japan’s aging...

Des preuves d’amour (Love Letters) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Evidence of Love: Douard’s Debut Reads Between the Lines of Maternal Affections While it plays like something of a specific time capsule, Alice Douard’s Love...

I Only Rest In The Storm | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

White Impact: Pinho Explores the Ponderous Progress Through Post-Colonial Perceptions “We never seem to be where we are,” remarks one of the characters in Pedro...

A Useful Ghost | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Ghost in the Machine: Boonbunchachoke Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost Spirits, in all their various forms, are an abiding fixture in Thai culture and folklore,...

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Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt (2025 Marrakech International Film Festival)

Óliver Laxe has been on a whirlwind promotional tour...

Interview: Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow

Before he began his maiden voyage into Cannes (being...

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...
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