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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Tigertail | Review

Tiger, Tiger Burning Dim: Yang Unveils a No-frills Yarn on Relationships, Regret Producer Alan Yang (“Parks and Recreation,” “Master of None”) presents a highly personal,...

We Summon the Darkness | Review

Heaven and Earth: Meyers Tackles Organized Religion with Droll Thriller Director Marc Meyers returns to the isolating terrors of the rural Midwest in a different...

Sea Fever | Review

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Hardiman Finds Humanity in the Horror We’ve seen countless films about bands of isolated humans in...

Why Don’t You Just Die! | Review

The Kalashnikov Sonata: Sokolov Serves Pulp in Enjoyably Nasty Debut Hell hath no fury like a struggling actress, at least as it’s played in the...

Criterion Collection: Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | Blu-ray Review

“I’ll never let you go,” Gene Tierney’s Ellen Berent coos to her husband/victim in the 1945 melodrama film-noir Leave Her to Heaven. It’s a...

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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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