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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Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and...

Miséricorde | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Kiss Me or Kill Me: Guiraudie Stirs a Sinister Solace in the Backwoods Alain Guiraudie returns to the ruinous climes of rural malcontentedness with his...

In Retreat | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Man of Constant Sorrow: Ali Explores the Network of Disconnection There’s an inescapable sense of mournfulness throughout Maisam Ali’s debut In Retreat, in which...

Savanna and the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Once Upon a Time in Barroso: Carneiro Speaks Truth to Power Opening with the gusto of a faded fairy tale, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna...

Three Kilometres To The End Of The World | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

It Can’t Happen Here: Parvu’s Agonizing Procedural on Small Town Homophobia For his third feature, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Romanian director...

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Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’

The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’

A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was...

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Review

Tom Cruise Can’t Stunt His Way Out Of A...
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