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:

The Forty-Year-Old Version | Review

What Happens to a Dream Deferred?: Blank Finds the Beauty of Herself in Striking Debut Writer/director Radha Blank arrives in the wake of an opulent...

Black Box | Review

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die: Osei-Kuffour Explores Emotional Resonance in Savvy Medical Thriller Horror and science-fiction have often been stomping grounds for exploring fantastic ideas...

The Lie | Review

Where Is It?: Sud Mines the Ethical Decay of the Privileged in Familiar but Fashionable Debut Resorting to a continual, if varied tradition of remaking...

Charm City Kings | Review

Ride on Time: Soto Stunts in Summer Streets Lorded by Baltimore Bike Gangs Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but often real life plays out...

A Rainy Day in New York | Review

I Don’t Like Cities, But I Like New York: Allen’s Shelved Comedy Can’t Shake the Clouds At one time the immortal city streets of New...

Breaking

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...
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