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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Babyteeth | Review

Death Comes for the Ozzie Frippet: Murphy Looks to Love Amidst Dysfunction in Cancer Melodrama Precocious teens represent a burgeoning film subgenre all to themselves---and...

The Surrogate | Review

She’s Having a Baby: Hersh Mines Moral Dilemma in Compelling Melodrama Melodrama as a genre, especially narratives centered deliberately on moral or ethical dilemmas,...

Aviva | Review

You Can Dance If You Wanna: Akin Returns with Experimental Dance Romance Perhaps the most interesting elements of Aviva rest in its origins and its...

Da 5 Bloods | Review

Things Fall Apart: Lee’s New Joint Unearths a Heart of Darkness Alive and Well “There is no story that is not true,” wrote Chinua Achebe...

You Don’t Nomi | Review

Eyes Without Versace: McHale Explores the Cult of Camp with Doc Debut What constitutes camp and how it can be created has long been an...

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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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