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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Beanpole | Review

Life After Wartime: Balagov Crafts Exemplary Portrait of Post-WWII Role of Women In the words of Plato, “Only the dead have seen the end of...

The Year that Was… Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Theatrical Releases of 2019

#20. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? - Dir. Roberto Minervini (US) #19. The Golden Glove - Dir. Fatih Akin (Germany) #18. In...

Incitement | Review

Histories of Violence: Zilberman Revisits the Tempest of Infamous Assassination Now over twenty years removed from the circumstances which led to the assassination of Israeli...

Come to Daddy | Review

Father of Mine: Timpson Paints Pastiche with Peculiar Debut While he assembles all the requisite elements for what promises to be a throwback to the...

Criterion Collection: All About My Mother (1999) | Blu-ray Review

Pedro Almodóvar’s most exquisitely dramatic and compassionate film All About My Mother arrived in the final year of the last century, a supercharged queer...

Breaking

Interview: Lila Avilés – Cábula | 2026 Venice Gap-Financing Market

As part of our coverage at the recent Venice...

I Plant My Hand in the Garden | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Root Work: Taheri and Hadzija Disrupt the Symmetry There’s an...

Closure | Review

Seriousness Sensationalized: Marczak Uses a Father in Turmoil to...

Prince | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

All Bark No Bite: Borgia’s Doggy Domestic Never Gets...
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