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 Tax Collector | Review

Taxation without Representation: Ayer Gets Absurd in L.A. Crime Noir The most interesting element of David Ayer’s latest crime thriller The Tax Collector is how...

Retaliation | Review

In God They Trust: The Shammasian Bros. Skirt Exploitation in Brooding Character Study There are certain subjects the mere presentation of which conjures overzealousness parameters...

Love is a Battlefield in Visconti’s Swan Song, L’innocente (1976) | Blu-ray Review

Premiering out of competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival just two months after he died from a stroke, Luchino Visconti’s final masterpiece, The...

The Burnt Orange Heresy | Review

Pleasure to Burn: Capotondi Returns with Entertaining Neo-Noir Murder really can be turned into art, it seems, in Giuseppe Capotondi’s return to narrative filmmaking with...

La Llorona | Review

No Woman, No Cry: Bustamante Reconfigures La Llorona as Avenging Equalizer Though she was recently resurrected as a superficial money grab in this year’s Warner...

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2026 Cannes: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Selected for Cannes Premiere (!?)

There was no mention this morning for a film...

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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