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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The Silencing | Review

The Quiet Canadian: Pront Returns to the Woods with Canadian Thriller Belgian director Robin Pront reveals his fixation with rural neo-noir in sophomore film and...

Project Power | Review

Speak Truth to Power: Schulman & Joost Present a Jagged Little Pill Directing duo Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost continue their genre-tinged explorations of continually...

Sputnik | Review

This Time It’s Cold War: Abramenko Revamps a Xenomorph with Effective Potboiler Just when you think a familiar formula might have run all its potential...

Unhinged | Review

Despite of His Rage: Borte Bottlenecks with Brutal Thriller Road rage finds a suitable vehicle in the latest film from director Derrick Borte, Unhinged, which...

The Bay of Silence | Review

The Hand That Mocks the Cradle: van der Oest Overwhelms in Overstuffed Trauma Drama Some inherent problems with adapting complex or labyrinthine novels into film...

Breaking

2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp

A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according...

2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette

The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and...
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