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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One of These Days | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Hands of Fate: Gunther Paints Compelling Portrait of Pride and Poverty German born director Bastian Günther returns to the other side of his dual citizenship...

The Intruder | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Sound of My Voice: Meta Delivers Masterful Psychological Identity Horror Does it come from without or within? ‘It’ being the perception of danger, delusion...

2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

For its 70th edition, the Berlinale begins a new era by adding some new categories (mainly the newly minted Encounters program, a competition for...

The Night Clerk | Review

Spy Hard: Cristofer Returns with Faulty Noir It’s been nearly twenty years since Pulitzer Prize winning scribe Michael Cristofer has developed a theatrical feature, last...

Criterion Collection: The Fugitive Kind (1960) | Blu-ray Review

“It’s time to speak of unspoken things,” is the tagline for a forgotten late 1960s Joseph Losey film called Secret Ceremony, an odd psychodrama...

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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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