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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By the Stream | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Right Sketch, Wrong Skit: Sangsoo Scans Patterns in Bittersweet Interludes Perspectives of regret and the uncertain odyssey of retrospection emphasize the undertones of perennial auteur...

The Life Apart | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre...

New Dawn Fades | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Through a Glass Darkly: Keltek Finds Divinity Through Insanity Sanism might be the term best used to define the trials and travails faced by the...

Toxic (Akiplėša) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Taste of a Poison Paradise: Bliuvaite Explores the Commodification of Women’s Bodies Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė perhaps could not have contrived a more succinct...

Cent mille milliards | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Unhappy Hooker: Vernier Explores Ennui in Monaco Interconnected drifters aligned with sex work once again provide the backbone for Virgil Vernier’s third feature 100,000,000,000,000...

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Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Chef’s Kiss: Bonnin Uses Familiar Recipe in Pleasant Debut For...

Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel

IONCINEMA.com has been gauging the pulse of the Palme...

Love (Kjærlighet) | Review

Ain’t Nothin’ But Sex Misspelled: Haugerud Continues Quiet, Earnest...

Sister Midnight | Review

Crazy On You: Kandhari’s Strange Fantasy of Madness It’s been...
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