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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Misery’s Company: Gollings Squanders Dream Cast in Sole Directorial “Connecting Rooms” (1970) | Blu-ray Review

For his one and only directorial effort, Franklin Gollings managed to finagle an impressive cast with 1970’s Connecting Rooms, based on the play The...

Deerskin | Review

Full Leather Jacket: Dupieux’s Cinema Bizarre Continues with Killer Style Quentin Dupieux, France’s purveyor or loopy absurdism, returns with Deerskin, headlined by high-profilers Jean...

Tammy’s Always Dying | Movie Review

Tammy and the Television: Johnson Jam Packs Eccentric Indie Drama Death becomes Felicity Huffman in the sophomore feature Tammy’s Always Dying from actress-turned director Amy...

The Wretched | Review

Something Derivative This Way Comes: The Pierce Bros. More Wicker than Wicked in Witchy Thriller The dead aren’t so much evil in The Wretched, the...

Kokoloko | 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Review

Love is Bolder Than Death: Naranjo Returns to his Roots with Lo-Fi Melodrama All’s fair in guerilla love and warfare, at least from the male’s...

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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...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!

The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winners...
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