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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Maternal | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review

Nun of Your Business: Delpero Explores Mothers and Others in Astute Debut For her feature film debut, documentarian Maura Delpero observed young women in Buenos...

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? | Review

Fox and Her Friends: Linklater Falters on the Architecture of Blanchett in Bizarre, Uneven Dramedy The boldest move made by Richard Linklater in his latest...

Criterion Collection: Klute (1971) | Blu-ray Review

“I have no idea what I’m going to do,” and “I have no idea what’s going to happen,” are among some of the lines...

A Good Thief is Hard to Find in Decoin’s Razzia sur la chnouf (1955) | Blu-ray Review

A classic from the underrated filmography of Henri Decoin, 1955’s Razzia sur la chnouf (Raid on Drugs) is based on a novel by Auguste...

Gabin Goes Gold in Becker’s Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) | Blu-ray Review

As part of Kino Lorber’s resurrection of Jean Gabin classics once owned by Criterion, on top of bringing Port of Shadows to Blu-ray, the...

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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...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Léa Mysius’ ‘Histoires de la Nuit’

Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on...
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