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...

Breaking

The Dreamed Adventure | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Era of Men: Valeska Dredges the Darkness of...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Were Fatherland & Fjord Tops of the Fest? We Compare Grids!

Fatherland and Fjord towered above the rest on our...

The Birthday Party (Histoires de la nuit) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Bird on a Wire: The Past Haunts the Present...

Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Bent Knee, Limp Wrist: Dhont Explores Love at the...
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