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 Truth | Review

I Remember Mama: Kore-eda Anoints Deneuve as a Diva in Pleasurable Drama A subtle exercise in the limited reality of both perspective and memory, auteur...

Irresistible | Review

Elephant Walk: Stewart Dulls the Sting of Political Campaigning Hypocrisy with Broad Satire The trick of a successful satire is to highlight stupidity or hypocrisy...

The Audition | Review

A History of Violins: Hoss at a Loss in Weisse’s Careful Character Study Actor Ina Weisse returns to the director’s chair for the first time...

The Last Tree | Review

A Tree Grows in London: Amoo Charts Familiar Coming of Age Drama Through Urban Pitfalls Cycles of violence and heartache in disenfranchised urban communities are...

The Conversation: Top 10 of 2020 Thus Far …

Our chief film critic Nicholas Bell offers his top ten in a (film) year are unlikely to forget. As per usual, this middle point...

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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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