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 High Note | Review

Do You Know Where You’re Going To?: Ganatra Gets Off-key with Recycled Formula Same shit, different day could have been a potential tagline for The...

Lucky Grandma | Review

Rob the Mob: Sealy Pushes a Grandmother into a Gang War in Enjoyable, Slight Debut Geriatrics involved in criminal activities have become something of a...

The Trip to Greece | Review

The Greece-y Strangler: Winterbottom Lays His Culinary Comedy Series to Rest Michael Winterbottom aims to kill his darlings with the fourth and final segment of...

Military Wives | Review

They Could Go on Singing: Cattaneo Conducts Choir in Formulaic Melodrama Director Peter Cattaneo resurfaces for his first narrative feature in over a decade...

Inheritance | Review

Sins of the Father: Stein Mines Elitism in Absurd Melodrama “Does any daughter every really know her father?” is one of several wilting lines of...

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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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