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 Furnace | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review

Easier for a Camel: MacKay Unearths Troubling History in Revisionist Western Debut Like Jennifer Kent before him with 2018’s The Nightingale, director Roderick MacKay mines...

Apples | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review

Blight of My Life: Nikou Finds Meaning Through Its Absence in Exceptional Debut Somewhere along the way, the Greek Weird Wave has seemingly evolved from...

Mulan | Review

Woman is the Future of Man: Caro Adapts a Folklore Classic for Western Eyes At first glance, Disney’s live-action reboot of Mulan, a long-gestating project...

Exes and Ohs: Regression Tension in Tewkesbury’s Debut “Old Boyfriends” (1979) | Blu-ray Review

“What happens when you see them again?” reads the tagline for Old Boyfriends (1979), the directorial debut of screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, a question which...

I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Review

In Search of Lost Time Regained: Kaufman Mutates Memory and Meaning “The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new lands but seeing...

Breaking

Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third...

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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