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.

Exclusive articles:

Criterion Collection: Taste of Cherry | Blu-ray Review

It’s impossible to talk about Iranian cinema without mention of Abbas Kiarostami, the most prominent figure amongst a formidable coterie of names which rose...

Fire Will Come | Review

Fire Walk with Me: Laxe Anchors an Arsonist in Meditative Portrait If fire is the regenerative metaphor of the phoenix, the same cannot be said...

Let Him Go [Video Review]

Gone, Baby, Gone: Bezucha Returns with Poignant Crime Drama For his first film in nearly a decade, director Thomas Bezucha returns with a spirited character-driven...

Koko-di Koko-da | Review

It’s All About Love: Nyholm Returns with Absurdist Allegory on Relationships If Groundhog Day (1993), the well-liked Bill Murray title about a weatherman who is...

His House [Video Review]

Death as a House: Weekes Finds Woe in Immigration Horror It’s a trauma so innately horrific on the surface the thought of collapsing it into...

Breaking

Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy,...

Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a...

2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de...
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