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:

12 Hour Shift | Review

Organ Trail: Grant Goes Haywire with Oversight on the Overnight Shift Organ trafficking usually isn’t the focal point of a comedy, even a dark one,...

The Boys in the Band | Review

Walk-in Closets: Mantello Resurrects the Classic Queer Miasma of Fear & Loathing In the five decades since it first arrived off-Broadway, Matt Crowley’s seminal play...

Possessor Uncut | Review

The Mind Benders: Cronenberg Returns with Eerie Exercise of Mind/Body Horror Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor Uncut, an...

American Murder: The Family Next Door | Review

Marriage Story: Popplewell Explores Watts Family Tragedy If Tolstoy asserted through his opening statements in Anna Karenina an adage of all happy families being the...

Misbehavior | Review

Through Beauty, Equality: Lowthorpe Examines Intersections Through Provocative Period Nexus Sporting material speckled with enough players and perspectives to justify a much longer format, Philippa...

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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