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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Iván & Hadoum | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Love Audit: de la Rosa Defies the Odds with Star-Crossed Lovers Much like the shifting ideals and hard won identities defining the protagonists of Ian...

No Good Men | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Up Close & Personal: Sadat Subverts the Spotlight in Stellar Melodrama In her third directorial feature, No Good Men, which is part of a five...

Sirat | Review

A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone “The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish.” Aleksandr Kayadonvsky’s line from Tarkovsky’s existential sci-fi...

Pillion | Review

Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut There’s a melancholic seductiveness to Pillion, the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, based on the 2020...

Sound of Falling | Review

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Schilinksi Paints a Microcosm of Misogyny The original title of Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature was The Doctor...

Breaking

Park Ji-Min Joins Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage’s ‘I Just Want a Great Love Story’

Production has begun on Philippe Lesage's highly anticipated I...

How to Divorce During the War | Review

Invisible Missiles: Blaževičius Offers Chilly Portrayal of a Couple...
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